Precise Quantum Chemistry calculations with few Slater Determinants
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| author | Giuliani, Clemens Nys, Jannes Martinazzo, Rocco Carleo, Giuseppe Rossi, Riccardo |
| author_facet | Giuliani, Clemens Nys, Jannes Martinazzo, Rocco Carleo, Giuseppe Rossi, Riccardo |
| contents | Slater determinants have underpinned quantum chemistry for nearly a century, yet their full potential has remained challenging to exploit. In this work, we show that a variational wavefunction composed of a few hundred optimized non-orthogonal determinants can achieve energy accuracies comparable to the state of the art. This is obtained by introducing an optimization method that leverages the quadratic dependence of the variational energy on the orbitals of each determinant, enabling an exact iterative optimization, and uses an efficient tensor-contraction algorithm to evaluate the effective Hamiltonian with a computational cost that scales as the fourth power of the number of basis functions. We benchmark the accuracy of the proposed method with exact full-configuration interaction results where available, and we achieve lower variational energies than coupled cluster (CCSD(T)) for several molecules in the double-zeta basis. |
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| spellingShingle | Precise Quantum Chemistry calculations with few Slater Determinants Giuliani, Clemens Nys, Jannes Martinazzo, Rocco Carleo, Giuseppe Rossi, Riccardo Chemical Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons Quantum Physics Slater determinants have underpinned quantum chemistry for nearly a century, yet their full potential has remained challenging to exploit. In this work, we show that a variational wavefunction composed of a few hundred optimized non-orthogonal determinants can achieve energy accuracies comparable to the state of the art. This is obtained by introducing an optimization method that leverages the quadratic dependence of the variational energy on the orbitals of each determinant, enabling an exact iterative optimization, and uses an efficient tensor-contraction algorithm to evaluate the effective Hamiltonian with a computational cost that scales as the fourth power of the number of basis functions. We benchmark the accuracy of the proposed method with exact full-configuration interaction results where available, and we achieve lower variational energies than coupled cluster (CCSD(T)) for several molecules in the double-zeta basis. |
| title | Precise Quantum Chemistry calculations with few Slater Determinants |
| topic | Chemical Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14502 |