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Quantum Physics

Quantum Matter

At DeepPsi we develop frontier AI for quantum science.

Built around the group of Prof. Liang Fu at MIT, our mission is to transform quantum physics and material science with a new generation of AI.

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QERNEL: a Scalable Large Electron Model

Khachatur Nazaryan, Liang Fu

We introduce QERNEL, a foundational neural wave function that variationally solves families of parameterized many-electron Hamiltonians and captures their ground states throughout parameter space within a single model. QERNEL combines FiLM-based parameter conditioning with scale efficient architectural elements — mixture of experts and grouped-query attention, substantially improving expressivity at low computational cost. We apply QERNEL to interacting electrons in semiconductor moiré heterobilayers, training a single weight-shared model for systems of up to 150 electrons. By solving the many-electron Schrödinger equation conditioned on moiré potential depth, QERNEL captures both quantum liquid and crystal states and discovers the sharp phase transition between them, marked by abrupt changes in interaction energy and charge density. Our work establishes a foundation model for moiré quantum materials and a scalable architecture toward a Large Electron Model for solids.

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Large Electron Model: A Universal Ground State Predictor

Timothy Zaklama, Max Geier, Liang Fu

We introduce Large Electron Model, a single neural network model that produces variational wavefunctions of interacting electrons over the entire Hamiltonian parameter manifold. Our model employs the Fermi Sets architecture, a universal representation of many-body fermionic wavefunctions, which is further conditioned on Hamiltonian parameter and particle number. On interacting electrons in a two-dimensional harmonic potential, a single trained model accurately predicts the ground state wavefunction while generalizing across unseen coupling strengths and particle-number sectors, producing both accurate real-space charge densities and ground state energies, even up to 50 particles. Our results establish a foundation model method for material discovery that is grounded in the variational principle, while accurately treating strong electron correlation beyond the capacity of density functional theory.

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Predicting magnetism with first-principles AI

Max Geier, Liang Fu

Computational discovery of magnetic materials remains challenging because magnetism arises from the competition between kinetic energy and Coulomb interaction that is often beyond the reach of standard electronic-structure methods. Here we tackle this challenge by directly solving the many-electron Schrödinger equation with neural-network variational Monte Carlo, which provides a highly expressive variational wavefunction for strongly correlated systems. Applying this technique to transition metal dichalcogenide moiré semicondutors, we predict itinerant ferromagnetism in WSe2/WS2 and an antiferromagnetic insulator in twisted Γ-valley homobilayer, using the same neural network without any physics input beyond the microscopic Hamiltonian. Crucially, both types of magnetic states are obtained from a single calculation within the Sz=0 sector, removing the need to compute and compare multiple Sz sectors. This significantly reduces computational cost and paves the way for faster and more reliable magnetic material design.

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