Variational Monte Carlo

The VMC repository builds a C++ executable named vmc. The program reads a fixed config.cfg, optimizes a Jastrow parameter with short simulations, runs one or more asynchronous production tasks, prints an aggregated terminal summary, and optionally records the first task’s frames in output/vmc.bin.

Start here

• Build VMC from source
• Run the test suite
• Create a profiling build
• Check command, configuration, and output behavior
• Follow the program architecture
• Review assumptions and general VMC knowledge

TODO — UWHPC execution guide

Missing: exact module commands, partition and resource requests, CPU/GPU hardware, scheduler script, output-storage location, expected runtime, and a captured successful UWHPC production run. Until those facts are supplied, this site documents locally verified software behavior without inventing cluster instructions.

TODO — physics and method background

Missing: the authoritative physical model, Hamiltonian, unit system, spin assumptions, derivation of the trial state and energy estimator, validation references, method limitations, authors, and paper citation.

Evidence policy

Build, test, profiling, and command pages include terminal output captured from commands run against this checkout. Captured outputs, timings, and numerical values are single observed runs from the documentation workspace — not benchmarks or promised results on UWHPC hardware. Code-structure claims trace to named files and functions. Interpretations that are not established by code are visibly tagged and collected in the expert review checklist.