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Main Authors: Henderson, Thomas M, Chen, Guo P., Scuseria, Gustavo E.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19063
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author Henderson, Thomas M
Chen, Guo P.
Scuseria, Gustavo E.
author_facet Henderson, Thomas M
Chen, Guo P.
Scuseria, Gustavo E.
contents Zero-seniority methods have shown great promise for the description of strongly-correlated electronic systems. Other seniority sectors have been much less explored, and in particular the maximal seniority sector and zero seniority have the same underlying algebraic structure. We introduce a seniority eigenstate configuration interaction in which the wave function is constrained to have good fixed local seniority for each paired orbital, by which we mean we partition orbitals into a pairing set with seniority zero, and a spin set with seniority one. We show how to build the effective Hamiltonian for this ansatz, and demonstrate that high-seniority wave functions have unexpectedly excellent accuracy for strongly-correlated fermionic systems, with accuracy competitive with or better than seniority zero for the Hubbard model and for the dissociation of the nitrogen molecule.
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spellingShingle Seniority Eigenstate Configuration Interaction
Henderson, Thomas M
Chen, Guo P.
Scuseria, Gustavo E.
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Zero-seniority methods have shown great promise for the description of strongly-correlated electronic systems. Other seniority sectors have been much less explored, and in particular the maximal seniority sector and zero seniority have the same underlying algebraic structure. We introduce a seniority eigenstate configuration interaction in which the wave function is constrained to have good fixed local seniority for each paired orbital, by which we mean we partition orbitals into a pairing set with seniority zero, and a spin set with seniority one. We show how to build the effective Hamiltonian for this ansatz, and demonstrate that high-seniority wave functions have unexpectedly excellent accuracy for strongly-correlated fermionic systems, with accuracy competitive with or better than seniority zero for the Hubbard model and for the dissociation of the nitrogen molecule.
title Seniority Eigenstate Configuration Interaction
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19063