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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…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-07-04 David A. Mazziotti

We have found a (dense) basis for the N-representable, two-electron densities, in which all N-representable two-electron densities can be expanded, using positive coefficients. The inverse problem of finding a representative wavefunction,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Mats-Erik Pistol

Quantum algorithms for molecular electronic structure have been developed with lower computational scaling than their classical counterparts, but emerging quantum hardware is far from being capable of the coherence,connectivity and gate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-17 Scott E. Smart , David A. Mazziotti

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)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-01 David A. Mazziotti

Two-body reduced density matrices (2RDMs) encode the essential two-electron physics of electronic states, but their quartic storage cost poses a major limitation in practical workflows. We investigate a simple protocol to compress both…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Kemal Atalar , Hugh G. A. Burton , Andreas Grüneis , George H. Booth

Functionals of the one-body reduced density matrix (1-RDM) are routinely minimized under Coleman's ensemble $N$-representability conditions. Recently, the topic of pure-state $N$-representability conditions, also known as generalized Pauli…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-05 Iris Theophilou , Nektarios N. Lathiotakis , Miguel A. L. Marques , Nicole Helbig

It is well known that the ground state energy of many-particle Hamiltonians involving only 2-body interactions can be obtained using constrained optimizations over density matrices which arise from reducing an N-particle state. While…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Samuel A. Ocko , Xie Chen , Bei Zeng , Beni Yoshida , Zhengfeng Ji , Mary Beth Ruskai , Isaac L. Chuang

The one-particle reduced density-matrix (1-RDM) functional theory is a promising alternative to density-functional theory (DFT) that uses the 1-RDM rather than the electronic density as a basic variable. However, long-standing challenges…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Matthieu Vladaj , Quentin Marécat , Bruno Senjean , Matthieu Saubanère

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…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-07 Anna O. Schouten , Simon Ewing , David A. Mazziotti

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))…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-23 James S. M. Anderson , Maho Nakata , Ryo Igarashi , Katsuki Fujisawa , Makoto Yamashita

Excited-state properties of highly correlated systems are key to understanding photosynthesis, luminescence, and the development of novel optical materials, but accurately capturing their interactions is computationally costly. We present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-21 Irma Avdic , David A. Mazziotti

Classical shadow tomography provides a randomized scheme for approximating the quantum state and its properties at reduced computational cost with applications in quantum computing. In this Letter we present an algorithm for realizing fewer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-20 Irma Avdic , David A. Mazziotti

We consider density matrices which are sums of projectors on states spanning irreducible representations of the permutation group of L sites (eigenstates of permutational invariant quantum system with L sites) and construct the reduced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-20 Mario Salerno , Vladislav Popkov

The $N$-representability problem places fundamental constraints on reduced density matrices (RDMs) that originate from physical many-fermion quantum states. Motivated by recent developments in functional theories, we introduce a hierarchy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Julia Liebert , Anna O. Schouten , Irma Avdic , Christian Schilling , David A. Mazziotti

Many electronic structure methods rely on the minimization of the energy of the system with respect to the one-body reduced density matrix (1-RDM). To formulate a minimization algorithm, the 1-RDM is often expressed in terms of its…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-04-18 Nicolas Cartier , Klaas Giesbertz

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…

This paper is devoted to the analysis of the distribution of the total angular momentum in a relativistic configuration. Using cumulants and generating function formalism this analysis can be reduced to the study of individual subshells…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Michel Poirier , Jean-Christophe Pain

The reduced-density-matrix method is an promising candidate for the next generation electronic structure calculation method; it is equivalent to solve the Schr\"odinger equation for the ground state. The number of variables is the same as a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-06-27 Maho Nakata , Mituhiro Fukuda , Katsuki Fujisawa

Quantum state tomography is a fundamental task in quantum information science, enabling detailed characterization of correlations, entanglement, and electronic structure in quantum systems. However, its exponential measurement and…

We explore generic ground-state and low-energy statistical properties of many-body bosonic and fermionic one- and two-body random ensembles (TBRE) in the dense limit, and contrast them with Random Matrix Theory (RMT). Weak differences in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 L. F. Santos , Dimitri Kusnezov , Ph. Jacquod