Cornell-Holland Ab-initio Materials Package (CHAMP)
The Cornell-Holland Ab-initio Materials Package (CHAMP) is a quantum Monte Carlo suite of programs for electronic structure calculations of atomic and molecular systems. The code is a sister code of the homonymous program originally developed by Cyrus Umrigar and Claudia Filippi of which it retains the accelerated Metropolis method and the efficient diffusion Monte Carlo algorithms.
The European branch of the code is currently developed by Claudia Filippi and Saverio Moroni, with significant contributions by Claudio Amovilli and other collaborators.
CHAMP has three basic capabilities:
- Metropolis or variational Monte Carlo (VMC)
- Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC)
- Optimization of many-body wave functions by energy minimization (VMC) for ground and excited states
Noteworthy features of CHAMP are:
- Efficient wave function optimization also in a state-average fashion for multiple states of the same symmetry (VMC)
- Efficient computation of analytical interatomic forces (VMC)
- Compact formulation for a fast evaluation of multi-determinant expansions and their derivatives (VMC and DMC)
- Multiscale VMC and DMC calculations in classical point charges (MM), polarizable continuum model (PCM), and polarizable force fields (MMpol)