Fix edge case in phase_single_det and phase_double_det#114
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During some calculations on BH/aug-cc-pVTZ (in a 4e, 68o) active space, I noticed SCI energies going below the FCI energy by a small amount (around 1e-5 Ha).
Eventually, I tracked this down to a small discrepancy in how bits are masked in
phase_single_detandphase_double_det.The problematic calculation is the mask
~(1UL << (n + 1)) + 1. It generates the following pattern:Here, one would have expected 0 for n=63. The result is that all bits in the determinant are counted up for the number of permutations, instead of no bits.
Below is a small example that shows the impact of this problem for the hydrogen molecule.
When below 64 orbitals, PyCI and PySCF energies match well, to 2e-11 Ha.
When above 64 orbitals, there was a small discrepancy of around 4e-8 Ha; this is reduced to around 4e-11 Ha after the proposed change.
Script to produce the table above: