# CritPt / Challenge_41_main

task_id: 9f682704-9d06-5932-a4bd-92a45b23f700
task_key: train--Challenge~5f41~5fmain
task_revision_id: 1

{"code_template":"def answer():\n    r\"\"\"\n    Return the value one should add to the total energy per electron.\n\n    Inputs\n    ----------\n    None\n\n    Outputs\n    ----------\n    delta_E_fs : float, the value one should add to the total energy per electron to remove finite-size effects (Hartree, two significant digits).\n    \"\"\"\n\n    # ------------------ FILL IN YOUR RESULTS BELOW ------------------\n    delta_E_fs = ...\n    # ---------------------------------------------------------------\n\n    return delta_E_fs\n","problem_description":"# Problem setup:\nIn a real-space quantum Monte Carlo simulation of a crystal, only a finite number of N electrons can be simulated on a computer. This is typically done by tiling a few unit cells of the materials into a supercell with volume $\\Omega$. Using periodic boundary conditions, the simulation can access only a finite number of momenta, which are compatible with the supercell. As a result, the total energy calculated in the simulation will have a finite-size error, which is the difference between the result from an infinite system and that of a finite-size one. It is possible to correct this finite-size error if given access to the many-body wave function.\nThe density of the electron gas is typically parameterized using the Wigner-Seitz radius $r_s$. When unpolarized, the Fermi wavevector $k_F=\\sqrt{2}/r_s$.\n\n# Main problem:\n\nAfter performing a diffusion Monte Carlo simulation of the unpolarized two-dimensional electron gas with $N=122$ electrons at density $r_s=10$ in a square box in the Fermi liquid phase using the Slater-Jastrow wave function, what should one add to the total energy per electron to remove finite-size effects? Report the answer in Hartree and keep two significant digits."}

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