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The exponential computational cost of describing strongly correlated electrons can be mitigated by adopting a reduced density-matrix (RDM)-based description of the electronic structure. While variational two-electron RDM (v2RDM) methods can…
Correlation-driven phenomena in molecular periodic systems are challenging to predict computationally not only because such systems are periodically infinite but also because they are typically strongly correlated. Here we generalize the…
The variational two-electron reduced density matrix (v2RDM) method is generalized for the description of total angular momentum ($J$) and projection of total angular momentum ($M_{J}$) states in atomic systems described by non-relativistic…
The two-electron reduced density matrix (2RDM) carries enough information to evaluate the electronic energy of a many-electron system. The variational 2RDM (v2RDM) approach seeks to determine the 2RDM directly, without knowledge of the wave…
For many-electron systems, the second-order reduced density matrix (2-RDM) provides sufficient information for characterizing their properties of interests in physics and chemistry, ranging from total energy, magnetism, quantum correlation…
We present a constructive solution to the N-representability problem---a full characterization of the conditions for constraining the two-electron reduced density matrix (2-RDM) to represent an N-electron density matrix. Previously known…
The computation of strongly correlated quantum systems is challenging because of its potentially exponential scaling in the number of electron configurations. Variational calculation of the two-electron reduced density matrix (2-RDM)…
In methods like geminal-based approaches or coupled cluster that are solved using the projected Schr\"odinger equation, direct computation of the 2-electron reduced density matrix (2-RDM) is impractical and one falls back to a 2-RDM based…
Minimizing the energy of an $N$-electron system as a functional of a two-electron reduced density matrix (2-RDM), constrained by necessary $N$-representability conditions (conditions for the 2-RDM to represent an ensemble $N$-electron…
The second-order reduced density matrix method (the RDM method) has performed well in determining energies and properties of atomic and molecular systems, achieving coupled-cluster singles and doubles with perturbative triples (CC SD(T))…
Encoding the electronic structure of molecules using 2-electron reduced density matrices (2RDMs) as opposed to many-body wave functions has been a decades-long quest as the 2RDM contains sufficient information to compute the exact molecular…
We recently presented a constructive solution to the N-representability problem of the two-electron reduced density matrix (2-RDM)---a systematic approach to constructing complete conditions to ensure that the 2-RDM represents a realistic…
The $\Delta$NO two-electron density matrix (2-RDM) and energy expression are derived from a multideterminantal wave function. The approximate $\Delta$NO 2-RDM is combined with an on-top density functional and a double-counting correction to…
Out-of-equilibrium quantum many-body systems exhibit rapid correlation buildup that underlies many emerging phenomena. Exact wave-function methods to describe this scale exponentially with particle number; simpler mean-field approaches…
The last several decades have seen significant advances in the theoretical modeling of materials within the fields of solid-state physics and materials science, but many methods commonly applied to this problem struggle to capture strong…
This work deals with the problem of strongly correlated electrons in two-dimensions (2D). We give a reduced density matrix (RDM) based tool through which the ground-state energy is given as a functional of the natural orbitals and their…
The variational determination of the two-fermion reduced density matrix is described for harmonically trapped, ultracold few-fermion systems in one dimension with equal spin populations. This is accomplished by formulating the problem as a…
The accurate description of the non-linear response of many-electron systems to strong-laser fields remains a major challenge. Methods that bypass the unfavorable exponential scaling with particle number are required to address larger…
Variational calculation of the ground state energy and its properties using the second-order reduced density matrix (2-RDM) is a promising approach for quantum chemistry. A major obstacle with this approach is that the $N$-representability…
Machine learning is rapidly accelerating materials and chemical discovery, but most current models target energies, forces, or selected molecular properties rather than the underlying many-body electronic structure. Learning…