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Publications [#361455] of Jianfeng Lu

Papers Published

  1. Huang, H; Landsberg, JM; Lu, J, Geometry of backflow transformation ansatz for quantum many-body fermionic wavefunctions (November, 2021)
    (last updated on 2024/03/29)

    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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