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An integrated neural wavefunction solver for spinful Fermi systems

Quantum Physics 2025-10-22 v1

Abstract

We present an approach to solving the ground state of Fermi systems that contain spin or other discrete degrees of freedom in addition to continuous coordinates. The approach combines a Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling for energy estimation that we adapted to cover the extended configuration space with a transformer-based wavefunction to represent fermionic states. This sampling is necessary when the Hamiltonian contains explicit spin dependence and, for spin-independent Hamiltonians, we find that the inclusion of spin updates leads to faster convergence to an antiferromagnetic ground state. A transformer with both continuous position and discrete spin as inputs achieves universal approximation to spinful generalized orbitals. We validate the method on a range of two-dimensional material problems: a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, a noncollinear spin texture, and a quantum antiferromagnet in a honeycomb moir\'e potential.

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@article{arxiv.2510.18621,
  title  = {An integrated neural wavefunction solver for spinful Fermi systems},
  author = {Alexander Avdoshkin and Max Geier and Liang Fu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.18621},
  year   = {2025}
}

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8 pages, 3 figures

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