Mathematical Foundations of Modern Quantum Many-Body Theory


Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute MATH 6940, Spring 2025


This is the official website for the reading course: Mathematical Foundations of Modern Quantum Many-Body Theory, held in Spring 2025

General information


Instructor: Fabian M. Faulstich

Time: Wed 2:00PM - 4:00PM Amos Eaton 411

Office Hours: TBD

Schedule

Date Topic Presenter
02/12 Introduction to Pseudopotentials Kangbo Li
02/19 A static quantum embedding scheme based on coupled cluster theory Muhammad Talha Aziz
02/26 Single-ancilla ground state preparation via Lindbladians Ibrahim Abdulazeez
03/12 Efficient and accurate approximations to the local coupled cluster singles doubles method using a truncated pair natural orbital basis Chanaka Mapa Mudiyanselage
03/26 An Introduction to Hierarchical (H-)Rank and TT-Rank of Tensors with Examples Jerry Huang
04/02 TBD Ibrahim Abdulazeez
04/09 Rank reduced coupled cluster theory. I. Ground state energies and wavefunctions Muhammad Talha Aziz
04/16 An efficient and near linear scaling pair natural orbital based local coupled cluster method Chanaka Mapa Mudiyanselage
04/23 Generative Modeling via Hierarchical Tensor Sketching Jerry Huang

Meetings marked with an asterisk (*) will be held remotely.

Textbooks


Mathematics:

A Mathematical Introduction To Electronic Structure Theory by Lin Lin and Jianfeng Lu

Chemistry:

Molecular Electronic‐Structure Theory by Trygve Helgaker, Poul Jørgensen, Jeppe Olsen
Modern Quantum Chemistry: Introduction to Advanced Electronic Structure Theory by Attila Szabo and Neil S. Ostlund

Physics:

Additional Resources


A static quantum embedding scheme based on coupled cluster theory
by Avijit Shee, Fabian M. Faulstich, Birgitta Whaley, Lin Lin and Martin Head-Gordon

Single-ancilla ground state preparation via Lindbladians
by Zhiyan Ding, Chi-Fang Chen and Lin Lin

Efficient and accurate approximations to the local coupled cluster singles doubles method using a truncated pair natural orbital basis
by Frank Neese, Andreas Hansen and Dimitrios G. Liakos

An Introduction to Hierarchical (H-)Rank and TT-Rank of Tensors with Examples
by Lars Grasedyck and Wolfgang Hackbusch

An efficient and near linear scaling pair natural orbital based local coupled cluster method
by Christoph Riplinger and Frank Neese

Generative Modeling via Hierarchical Tensor Sketching
by Yifan Peng, Yian Chen, E. Miles Stoudenmire and Yuehaw Khoo

Rank reduced coupled cluster theory. I. Ground state energies and wavefunctions
by Robert M. Parrish, Yao Zhao, Edward G. Hohenstein, Todd J. Martínez

Notes and Presentations