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The ground state of second-quantized quantum chemistry Hamiltonians provides access to an important set of chemical properties. Wavefunctions based on ML architectures have shown promise in approximating these ground states in a variety of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 An-Jun Liu , Bryan K. Clark

Accurately simulating extended periodic systems is a central challenge in condensed matter physics. Neural quantum states (NQS) offer expressive wavefunctions for this task but face issues with scalability. In this work, we successfully…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-17 An-Jun Liu , Bryan K. Clark

Neural network quantum state (NNQS) has emerged as a promising candidate for quantum many-body problems, but its practical applications are often hindered by the high cost of sampling and local energy calculation. We develop a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-02 Yangjun Wu , Chu Guo , Yi Fan , Pengyu Zhou , Honghui Shang

We present a deterministic optimization framework for Neural Network Quantum States (NQS) designed to bypass the sampling variance and slow mixing issues inherent in stochastic optimization. By projecting a neural backflow ansatz onto…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Zheng Che

Neural network quantum states (NQS) have emerged as a powerful and flexible framework for addressing quantum many-body problems. While successful for model Hamiltonians, their application to molecular systems remains challenging for several…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 Zibo Wu , Bohan Zhang , Wei-Hai Fang , Zhendong Li

Neural quantum states (NQS) are a promising ansatz for solving many-body quantum problems due to their inherent expressiveness. Yet, this expressiveness can only be harnessed efficiently for treating identical particles if the suitable…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Lexin Ding , Markus Reiher

Neural-network quantum states (NQS) has emerged as a powerful application of quantum-inspired deep learning for variational Monte Carlo methods, offering a competitive alternative to existing techniques for identifying ground states of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Oliver Knitter , Dan Zhao , James Stokes , Martin Ganahl , Stefan Leichenauer , Shravan Veerapaneni

Neural-network quantum states (NQS) employ artificial neural networks to encode many-body wave functions in second quantization through variational Monte Carlo (VMC). They have recently been applied to accurately describe electronic wave…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Xiang Li , Jia-Cheng Huang , Guang-Ze Zhang , Hao-En Li , Chang-su Cao , Dingshun Lv , Han-Shi Hu

We propose a hybrid variational framework that enhances Neural Quantum States (NQS) with a Normalising Flow-based sampler to improve the expressivity and trainability of quantum many-body wavefunctions. Our approach decouples the sampling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Vishal S. Ngairangbam , Michael Spannowsky , Timur Sypchenko

Obtaining an accurate ground state wave function is one of the great challenges in the quantum many-body problem. In this paper, we propose a new class of wave functions, neural network backflow (NNB). The backflow approach, pioneered…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-06-19 Di Luo , Bryan K. Clark

Solving quantum many-body problems is one of the fundamental challenges in quantum chemistry. While neural network quantum states (NQS) have emerged as a promising computational tool, its training process incurs exponentially growing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Hongtao Xu , Zibo Wu , Mingzhen Li , Weile Jia

In recent years, neural network quantum states (NNQS) have emerged as powerful tools for the study of quantum many-body systems. Electronic structure calculations are one such canonical many-body problem that have attracted significant…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 Thomas D. Barrett , Aleksei Malyshev , A. I. Lvovsky

The field of neural quantum states has recently experienced a tremendous progress, making them a competitive tool of computational quantum many-body physics. However, their largest achievements to date mostly concern interacting spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-15 Aleksei Malyshev , Markus Schmitt , A. I. Lvovsky

The advent of Neural-network Quantum States (NQS) has significantly advanced wave function ansatz research, sparking a resurgence in orbital space variational Monte Carlo (VMC) exploration. This work introduces three algorithmic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Xiang Li , Jia-Cheng Huang , Guang-Ze Zhang , Hao-En Li , Zhu-Ping Shen , Chen Zhao , Jun Li , Han-Shi Hu

Neural quantum states (NQS) provide a flexible and highly expressive parameterization of wave functions for strongly correlated problems in quantum chemistry. Despite rapid advances in network architectures, the evaluation of electronic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Marco Julian Solanki , Lexin Ding , Markus Reiher

Accurately describing the ground state of strongly correlated systems is essential for understanding their emergent properties. Neural Network Backflow (NNBF) is a powerful variational ansatz that enhances mean-field wave functions by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-03 Kieran Loehr , Bryan K. Clark

Neural quantum states (NQS) have gained prominence in variational quantum Monte Carlo methods in approximating ground-state wavefunctions. Despite their success, they face limitations in optimization, scalability, and expressivity in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Zongkang Zhang , Ying Li , Xiaosi Xu

Neural-network quantum states (NQS) offer a versatile and expressive alternative to traditional variational ans\"atze for simulating physical systems. Energy-based frameworks, like Hopfield networks and Restricted Boltzmann Machines,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-18 Manas Sajjan , Vinit Singh , Sabre Kais

Neural-network quantum states (NQS) are powerful neural-network ans\"atzes that have emerged as promising tools for studying quantum many-body physics through the lens of the variational principle. These architectures are known to be…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-07-28 Jake McNaughton , Mohamed Hibat-Allah

Neural quantum states (NQS) have emerged as a powerful ansatz for variational quantum Monte Carlo studies of strongly-correlated systems. Here, we apply recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and autoregressive transformer neural networks to the…

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