Geometry of backflow transformation ansatze for quantum many-body fermionic wavefunctions

DOI10.4310/CMS.2023.V21.N5.A12MaRDI QIDQ6071737zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hang Huang, J. M. Landsberg, Jianfeng Lu

Publication date 28 November 2023

Published in Communications in Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.10314

zbMATH Keywords

anti-symmetrybackflow transformationfermionic wavefunctionsecant variety

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Secant varieties, tensor rank, varieties of sums of powers (14N07) Variational methods for problems in mechanics (70G75) Fermionic systems in quantum theory (81V74)

Abstract: Wave function ansatz based on the backflow transformation are widely used to parametrize anti-symmetric multivariable functions for many-body quantum problems. We study the geometric aspects of such ansatz, in particular we show that in general totally antisymmetric polynomials cannot be efficiently represented by backflow transformation ansatz at least in the category of polynomials. In fact, one needs a linear combination of at least $O(N^{3N-3})$ determinants to represent a generic totally antisymmetric polynomial. Our proof is based on bounding the dimension of the source of the ansatz from above and bounding the dimension of the target from below.

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