cs.LGMay 28, 2026

MōLe-Λ: Learning the Coupled-Cluster Response State for Energies, Gradients, and Properties

Authors: Andreas BurgerLuca ThiedeAbdulrahman AldossaryJorge A. Campos-Gonzalez-AnguloAlex ZookJérôme Florian GonthierAlán Aspuru-Guzik

Abstract

Coupled-cluster (CC) theory is often considered the gold standard of quantum chemistry, but its high computational cost limits routine access to accurate energies, forces and response properties. While the right-hand TT-amplitudes determine the correlated wavefunction, many practically important observables additionally require the left-hand ΛΛ-amplitudes. We introduce MōLe-ΛΛ, an extension of Molecular Orbital Learning (MōLe) that predicts the full ground-state coupled-cluster singles and doubles (CCSD) response state by jointly learning right-hand amplitudes (T1,T2)(T_1,T_2) and left-hand amplitudes (Λ1,Λ2)(Λ_1,Λ_2) from localized Hartree--Fock molecular orbitals. Architecturally, MōLe-ΛΛ extends MōLe with Λ1Λ_1 and Λ2Λ_2 readouts that mirror the symmetry constraints of the T1T_1 and T2T_2 heads, while preserving the original equivariant orbital encoder, odd sign-equivariant decoding, locality and size-extensivity. The resulting model yields accurate CC-quality energies and forces, while simultaneously recovering dipoles, quadrupoles, polarizabilities, the electron density, and 2-electron observables such as the pair density. We show that MōLe-ΛΛ further extends the speed advantage of MōLe over full CCSD while substantially expanding the accessible properties, providing a route to wavefunction-level surrogate models for correlated quantum chemistry.

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