A Fixed Universal Determinant is Variationally Complete for Continuum Fermions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14476v1
• Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:54:47 GMT
• Title: A Fixed Universal Determinant is Variationally Complete for Continuum Fermions
• Abstract summary: Exact expansions in a finite basis needly many, and state-of-the-art fermionic neural quantum states stack growing numbers of them.<n>We prove that, in the norms that govern variational calculations, at most two are needed, independently of the number of particles and of the target accuracy.
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• Abstract: How many Slater determinants does an accurate variational description of interacting fermions require? Exact expansions in a finite basis need combinatorially many, and state-of-the-art fermionic neural quantum states stack growing numbers of them. We prove that, in the norms that govern variational calculations, at most two are needed, independently of the number of particles and of the target accuracy. A single universal Slater determinant-specified in advance, independent of both the system and the state-multiplied by a smooth bosonic wave function approximates any fermionic wave function in up to three spatial dimensions in the first-order Sobolev norm, which controls the variational energy. Reaching the second-order Sobolev norm-for Coulomb interactions, the domain of the Hamiltonian, which bounds the variance of the local energy at the core of variational Monte Carlo-requires at most one additional fixed determinant, and only in three dimensions. Antisymmetry therefore costs at most two universal determinants and no expressiveness: generalized Slater-Jastrow neural quantum states are variationally complete.

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