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[This paper is part of the Focused Collection in Investigating and Improving Quantum Education through Research.] We discuss how research on student difficulties was used as a guide to develop, validate, and evaluate a Quantum Interactive Learning Tutorial (QuILT) to help students learn how to determine the completely symmetric bosonic or completely antisymmetric fermionic wave function and be able to compare and contrast them from the case when the particles can be treated as distinguishable. We discuss how explicit scaffolding is designed via guided teaching-learning sequences for two- or three-particle bosonic and fermionic systems to help students develop intuition about how to construct completely symmetric and antisymmetric wave function, both when spin part of the wave function is ignored and when both spatial and spin degrees of freedom are included. Published by the American Physical Society2025
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Fermionic tensor network contraction for arbitrary geometries
We describe our implementation of fermionic tensor network contraction on arbitrary lattices within both a globally ordered and a locally ordered formalism. We provide a pedagogical description of these two conventions as implemented for the quimb library. Using hyperoptimized approximate contraction strategies, we present benchmark fermionic projected entangled pair state simulations of finite Hubbard models defined on the three-dimensional diamond lattice and random regular graphs. Published by the American Physical Society2025
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- Award ID(s):
- 2102505
- PAR ID:
- 10616678
- Publisher / Repository:
- American Physical Society
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Research
- Volume:
- 7
- Issue:
- 2
- ISSN:
- 2643-1564
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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