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Neuralized fermionic tensor networks for quantum many-body systems

  • 1. ROR icon California Institute of Technology

Abstract

We describe a class of neuralized fermionic tensor network states (NN-fTNSs) that introduce nonlinearity into fermionic tensor networks through configuration-dependent neural network transformations of the local tensors. The construction uses the fTNS algebra to implement a natural fermionic sign structure and is compatible with standard tensor network algorithms but gains enhanced expressivity through the neural network parametrization. Using the 1D and 2D Fermi-Hubbard models as benchmarks, we demonstrate that NN-fTNSs achieve order of magnitude improvements in the ground-state energy compared to pure fTNSs with the same bond dimension and can be systematically improved through both the tensor network bond dimension and the neural network parametrization. Compared to existing fermionic neural quantum states based on Slater determinants and Pfaffians, NN-fTNSs offer a physically motivated alternative fermionic structure. Furthermore, compared to such states, NN-fTNSs naturally exhibit improved computational scaling and we demonstrate a construction that achieves linear scaling with the lattice size.

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©2026 American Physical Society.

Acknowledgement

S.-J.D. thanks W.-Y. Liu, R. Peng, J. Gray, and Di Luo for helpful discussions. The fermionic tensor networks are implemented with Quimb [61] and Symmray [10], and neural networks are implemented with PyTorch [62]. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, through Award No. DE-SC0019374. Some computations were performed using the facilities of National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, under NERSC Award No. ERCAP0023924. G.K.-L.C. acknowledges additional support from the Simons Investigator program.

Data Availability

The data that support the findings of this article are not publicly available. The data are available from the authors upon reasonable request.

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Funding

United States Department of Energy
DE-SC0019374
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
ERCAP0023924
Simons Foundation

Dates

Submitted
2025-06-25
Accepted
2026-01-22