Foundation Neural-Network Quantum States for Molecular Potential Energy Surfaces in Second Quantization

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Geometry-conditioned foundation neural-network quantum states

published

2026-09-29

This is a computational quantum chemistry method for molecular potential energy surfaces, not an LLM inference, training, or agent technique, so it falls outside the production scope of a general AI/ML engineer unless the team specifically builds molecular simulation products.

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   The method replaces per-geometry independent optimization of neural-network quantum states with a single autoregressive model trained on sparse anchor geometries, using orbital alignment to enable zero-shot wavefunction evaluation at untrained geometries. The cost is the upfront training of the shared model plus the orbital alignment procedure, and property predictions emerge only as byproducts of energy-trained wavefunctions without property labels. Failure modes include demonstrated dependence on training seeds (alignment was required to reduce errors from 34-37 mHa to below 0.1 mHa), validation limited to small systems (N2, CO, H4), and no demonstrated scaling to larger or chemically diverse molecules.

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   Frozen evaluation reduces per-geometry cost by 986x relative to independent optimization at ~1 mHa error, with an estimated 25.8x end-to-end GPU-cost reduction on a 161-point N2 grid.

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