Improved Optimization for the Cluster Jastrow Antisymmetric Geminal Power and Tests on Triple-Bond Dissociations

Abstract: We present a novel specialization of the variational Monte Carlo linear method for the optimization of the recently introduced cluster Jastrow antisymmetric geminal power ansatz, achieving a lower-order polynomial cost scaling than would be possible with a naive application of the linear method and greatly improving optimization performance relative to the previously employed quasi-Newton approach. We test the methodology on highly multi-reference triple-bond stretches, achieving accuracies superior to traditional coupled cluster theory and multi-reference perturbation theory in both the typical example of N$_2$ and the transition-metal-oxide example of [ScO]$^+$.