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Clark"],"authorCount":2,"venue":"Physical Review Letters","year":2019,"type":"article","citedBy":173,"keywords":["Hubbard model","variational Monte Carlo","double occupancy"],"topic":{"topic":"Quantum many-body systems","subfield":"Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics","field":"Physics and Astronomy","domain":"Physical Sciences"},"readAt":"2026-10-14T09:02:06.425Z"},"explanation":{"headline":"The neural network backflow (NNB) wave function is a broader family that includes the standard backflow, which the authors show can be written explicitly as an NNB.","did":"The authors proposed a wave function that uses a feed-forward neural network to transform single-particle orbitals. 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