By developing an efficient spin symmetry penalty, a recent study has substantially accelerated the calculation of accurate energies with correct spin states in variational Monte Carlo for both ground and excited states of quantum many-particle systems.
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Li, Y., Chen, Y. & He, X. Teaching spin symmetry while learning neural network wave functions. Nat Comput Sci 4, 884–885 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-024-00727-z
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