Nearly fifty years of collaboration on the development of formulations of the many-electron theory for molecular, atomic and condensed matter in terms of propagators is surveyed.
This conference was organized under the aegis of the University of Joensuu “to review the impact of the E.P.R. argument on the development of quantum theory, to discuss the philosophical implications of recent experimental and theoretical results on the E.P.R. problem, and to survey some other recent trends in the interpretation of quantum mechanics and classical mechanics.” There were approximately fifty lectures (and another fifty offered), two panel discussions, with over one hundred and fifty participants representing twenty five countries, which is remarkable since one physicist reviewing the original proposal for the conference termed E.P.R. as “the problem that is not a problem!”
A central challenge of physics is the computation of strongly correlated quantum systems. The past ten years have witnessed the development and application of the variational calculation of the two-electron reduced density matrix (2-RDM) without the wave function. In this Letter we present an orders-of-magnitude improvement in the accuracy of 2-RDM calculations without an increase in their computational cost. The advance is based on a low-rank, dual formulation of an important constraint on the 2-RDM, the T2 condition. Calculations are presented for metallic chains and a cadmium-selenide dimer. The low-scaling T2 condition will have significant applications in atomic and molecular, condensed-matter, and nuclear physics.