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In particular, for carbon rings of C4N+2 stoichiometry we have resolved a long-standing problem regarding the competition between the aromaticity and second order Jahn-Teller effects. We have found that the dominant mechanism at small and intermediate sizes, which stabilizes the bond angle and bond length alternated geometries, is the secondorder Jahn-Teller effect while the aromatic isomer is always found to be a transition state. These high accuracy calculations which have involved multi-reference wave functions, extensive variational optimizations, and the use of massively parallel platforms demonstrate clearly the unique capabilities of the QMC approach.","abstract_html":"Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is one of the most promising methods for solving quantum many-body problems. QMC combines known analytical properties of wave functions, results from other methods, and stochastic techniques, into a powerful tool for investigation of the electronic structure of real materials. 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