@inproceedings {sandagon-spp-2004, title = {Variational Monte Carlo of a 2D quantum well system}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 22nd Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Physics Congress}, year = {2004}, month = {25{\textendash}27 Oct 2004}, pages = {153}, address = {Bohol Tropics Resort, Tagbilaran City}, abstract = {
The convergence of a Variational Monte Carlo method with Gaussian importance sampling (VMC-GIS), as applied to a two-dimensional time-independent quantum well, was improved by optimizing the standard deviation σ of the Gaussian probability distribution. The fastest convergence in attaining the ground state is obtained by using VMC-GIS with σ=0.6 .
}, author = {Ryan Sandagon and Ronald S. Banzon and Cristine Villagonzalo} }