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Two-electron wavefunctions are matrix product states with bond dimension Three

Quantum Physics 2022-10-05 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We prove the statement in the title, for a suitable (wavefunction-dependent) choice of the underlying orbitals, and show that Three is optimal. Thus for two-electron systems, the QC-DMRG method with bond dimension Three combined with fermionic mode optimization exactly recovers the FCI energy.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2109.10091,
  title  = {Two-electron wavefunctions are matrix product states with bond dimension Three},
  author = {Gero Friesecke and Benedikt R. Graswald},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.10091},
  year   = {2022}
}
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