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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…

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

It is virtually impossible to directly solve the Schr\"odinger equation for a many-electron wave function due to the exponential growth in degrees of freedom with increasing particle number. The two-body reduced density matrix (2-RDM)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-22 Nicholas Cox

Constructing a quantum description of crystals from scattering experiments is of paramount importance to explain their macroscopic properties and to evaluate the pertinence of theoretical ab-initio models. While reconstruction methods of…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-19 Benjamin De Bruyne , Jean-Michel Gillet

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

Analytic energy gradients are presented for a variational two-electron reduced-density-matrix-driven complete active space self-consistent field (v2RDM-CASSCF) procedure that employs the density-fitting (DF) approximation to the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-11-29 J. Wayne Mullinax , Evgeny Epifanovsky , Gergely Gidofalvi , A. Eugene DePrince

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

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

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

An active space variational calculation of the 2-electron reduced density matrix (2-RDM) is derived and implemented where the active orbitals are correlated within the pair approximation. The pair approximation considers only doubly…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-10-13 Kade Head-Marsden , David A. Mazziotti

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

A key problem in the modern study of AI is predicting and understanding emergent capabilities in models during training. Inspired by methods for studying reactions in quantum chemistry, we present the ``2-datapoint reduced density matrix".…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Max Hennick , Guillaume Corlouer

Representability determines when a two-particle reduced density matrix (2-RDM) corresponds to a physical quantum state, enabling many-particle quantum calculations with 2-RDMs rather than the wave function. In this Letter, we present a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 David A. Mazziotti

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…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-06-21 Nicholas C. Rubin , David A. Mazziotti

Parametric two-electron reduced-density-matrix (p-2RDM) methods have enjoyed much success in recent years; the methods have been shown to exhibit accuracies greater than coupled cluster with single and double substitutions (CCSD) for both…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2010-09-02 A. Eugene DePrince , David A. Mazziotti

We develop a representability-aware and interpolable neural network (NN) framework for predicting two-particle reduced density matrices (2-RDMs). The NN incorporates a subset of representability conditions through its architecture and loss…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-21 Justin B. Hart , Awwab A. Azam , Thomas Li , Yunxuan Li , Ye Bi , Haining Pan , Jiabin Yu

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…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2011-08-30 Maho Nakata

We derive a self-consistent local variant of the Thomas-Fermi approximation for (quasi-)two-dimensional (2D) systems by localizing the Hartree term. The scheme results in an explicit orbital-free representation of the electron density and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-04 E. Rasanen , S. Pittalis , G. Bekcioglu , I. Makkonen

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 aim of this paper is the derivation of structure preserving schemes for the solution of the EPDiff equation, with particular emphasis on the two dimensional case. We develop three different schemes based on the Discrete Variational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-26 Stig Larsson , Takayasu Matsuo , Klas Modin , Matteo Molteni

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