Figure 7.
Spin contamination (Δ⟨Ŝ2⟩ = ⟨Ŝ2⟩ – S(S + 1)) in the CAS(55,38) for different J and population numbers. The spin ⟨Ŝ2⟩ was calculated from RDMs. While the larger J = 1 × 10–2Eh value provides dynamics with nearly exact spin expectation values for any chosen walker population, the smaller J = 1 × 10–3Eh calculations converge to the correct spin expectation value more slowly and only for larger populations.