Unifying machine learning and quantum chemistry with a deep neural network for molecular wavefunctions

Kristof T. Schütt, Michael Gastgger, Alexandre Tkatchenko, Klaus-Robert Müller, Reinhard J. Maurer, Nature Commun. 10, 5024 (2019)

"Here we present a deep machine learning framework for the prediction of the quantum mechanical wavefunction in a local basis of atomic orbitals from which all other ground-state properties can be derived. This approach retains full access to the electronic structure via the wavefunction at force-field-like efficiency and captures quantum mechanics in an analytically differentiable representation. On several examples, we demonstrate that this opens promising avenues to perform inverse design of molecular structures for targeting electronic property optimisation and a clear path towards increased synergy of machine learning and quantum chemistry."