u/Objective-Ad3739

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Compressed determinant manifolds in FeMoco CAS(54,54) on a desktop workstation — looking for technical feedback

I would appreciate technical feedback from the quantum computing / computational chemistry community on a manuscript I recently submitted.

The work examines whether the physically relevant determinant manifold in structured electronic ground states may be far smaller than the formal Hilbert-space dimension suggests.

Main result:

  • FeMoco CAS(54,54)
  • formal determinant space: ~3.79 × 10^30
  • retained determinants: ~748,000
  • single desktop workstation (RTX 4090)
  • PT2-based convergence / variational inclusion workflow

The manuscript also includes:

  • H₂ and LiH benchmark validation against FCI
  • supporting code and data files
  • discussion of determinant-space compressibility
  • DTQW-guided determinant graph navigation

I am NOT claiming that all many-electron systems are universally compressible, nor that quantum computing is unnecessary.

The point is narrower: for the systems examined here, the physically relevant manifold appears highly compressed and computationally navigable.

I would genuinely appreciate criticism, reproduction attempts, or technical discussion from people working in quantum chemistry, tensor methods, selected CI, quantum algorithms, or many-body physics.

Especially interested in whether similar manifold compression behavior has been observed in other frameworks.

Manuscript and supporting materials:
https://zenodo.org/records/19985028

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