Two-electron wavefunctions are matrix product states with bond dimension Three

We prove the statement in the title, for a suitable (wavefunction-dependent) choice of the underlying orbitals, and show that Three is optimal. Thus for two-electron systems, the QC-DMRG method with bond dimension Three combined with fermionic mode optimization exactly recovers the FCI energy

Exact matrix product state representation and convergence of a fully correlated electronic wavefunction in the infinite basis limit

In this article we present the exact representation of a fully correlated electronic wavefunction as the single-particle basis approaches completeness. It consists of a half-infinite chain of matrices of exponentially increasing size. The complete basis limit is illustrated numerically using the density matrix renormalization group method by computing the core-valence entanglement in the C$_2$ ground state in increasing subsets of cc-pVTZ and pVQZ bases until convergence is reached.Comment: Fixed latex bug which printed both old and updated bibliograph