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The study of strongly correlated electron systems remains a fundamental challenge in condensed matter physics, particularly in two-dimensional (2D) systems hosting various exotic phases of matter including quantum spin liquids,…

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Density functional theory (DFT), the most widely adopted method in modern computational chemistry, fails to describe accurately the electronic structure of strongly correlated systems. Here we show that DFT can be formally and practically…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-04-18 Daniel Gibney , Jan-Niklas Boyn , David A. Mazziotti

We explore the non-equilibrium dynamics of a one-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard system as a sensitive testbed for the capabilities of the time-dependent two-particle reduced density matrix (TD2RDM) theory to accurately describe time-dependent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-06 Stefan Donsa , Fabian Lackner , Joachim Burgdörfer , Michael Bonitz , Benedikt Kloss , Angel Rubio , Iva Březinová

Describing time-dependent many-body systems where correlation effects play an important role remains a major theoretical challenge. In this paper we develop a time-dependent many-body theory that is based on the two-particle reduced density…

Hubertus J. J. van Dam [Phys. Rev. A 93, 052512, 2016] claims that the one-particle reduced density matrix (1RDM) of an interacting system can be represented by means of a single-determinant wavefunction of fictitious non-interacting…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-10-20 Mario Piris , Katarzyna Pernal

The electron density of a molecule or material has recently received major attention as a target quantity of machine-learning models. A natural choice to construct a model that yields transferable and linear-scaling predictions is to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Andrea Grisafi , Alan M. Lewis , Mariana Rossi , Michele Ceriotti

The theorems of density functional theory (DFT) and reduced density matrix functional theory (RDMFT) establish a bijective map between the external potential of a many-body system and its electron density or one-particle reduced density…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Xuecheng Shao , Lukas Paetow , Mark E. Tuckerman , Michele Pavanello

We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for the N-representability of the universal one-electron reduced density matrix functional. Functionals satisfying these conditions are guaranteed to yield variational upper bounds on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Jannis Erhard , Paul W. Ayers

The energy minimization involved in density functional calculations of electronic systems can be carried out using an exponential transformation that preserves the orthonormality of the orbitals. The energy of the system is then represented…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Aleksei V. Ivanov , Elvar Ö. Jónsson , Tejs Vegge , Hannes Jónsson

We propose and work out a reduced density matrix functional theory (RDMFT) for calculating energies of eigenstates of interacting many-electron systems beyond the ground state. Various obstacles which historically have doomed such an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-08 Christian Schilling , Stefano Pittalis

Properties that are necessarily formulated within pure (symmetric) expectation values are difficult to calculate for projector quantum Monte Carlo approaches, but are critical in order to compute many of the important observable properties…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Catherine Overy , George H. Booth , N. S. Blunt , James Shepherd , Deidre Cleland , Ali Alavi

The N-representability problem for reduced density matrices remains a fundamental challenge in electronic structure theory. Following our previous work that employs a unitary-evolution algorithm based on an adaptive derivative-assembled…

The reduced density matrix (RDM) plays a key role in quantum entanglement and measurement, as it allows the extraction of almost all physical quantities related to the reduced degrees of freedom. However, restricted by the degrees of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 Bin-Bin Mao , Yi-Ming Ding , Zhe Wang , Shijie Hu , Zheng Yan

Strongly correlated electron systems are challenging to calculate, and entanglement in such systems is not widely analyzed. We present an approach that can be used as a post-processing step for calculating the two-site reduced density…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-29 Gergő Roósz , Anna Kauch , Frederic Bippus , Daniel Wieser , Karsten Held

Large strongly correlated systems provide a challenge to modern electronic structure methods, because standard density functionals usually fail and traditional quantum chemical approaches are too demanding. The density-matrix…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-05-18 Lucas O. Wagner , E. M. Stoudenmire , Kieron Burke , Steven R. White

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Patrick Egenlauf , Iva Březinová , Sabine Andergassen , Miriam Klopotek

Reduced density-matrix functional theory (RDMFT) is a promising alternative approach to the problem of electron correlation. Like standard density functional theory, it contains an unknown exchange-correlation functional, for which several…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 N. N. Lathiotakis , Miguel A. L. Marques

We extend density matrix embedding theory to periodic systems, resulting in an electronic band structure method for solid-state materials. The electron correlation can be captured by means of a local impurity model using various choices of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-27 Hung Q. Pham , Matthew R. Hermes , Laura Gagliardi

The one-body reduced density matrix (1-RDM) of a many-body system at zero temperature gives direct access to many observables, such as the charge density, kinetic energy and occupation numbers. It would be desirable to express it as a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Jack Wetherell , Andrea Costamagna , Matteo Gatti , Lucia Reining

The dissociation of $\rm N_2$ and $\rm N_2^+$ has been studied by using the \emph{ab initio} Density Matrix Renormalization Group (DMRG) method. Accurate Potential Energy Surfaces (PES) have been obtained for the electronic ground states of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Christian Stemmle , Örs Legeza , Beate Paulus