A machine learning based approach to the identification of spectral densities in quantum open systems
Abstract
We present a machine learning-based approach for characterising the environment that affects the dynamics of an open quantum system. We focus on the case of an exactly solvable spin-boson model, where the system-environment interaction, whose strength is encoded in the spectral density, induces pure dephasing. By using artificial neural networks trained on the Fourier-transformed time evolution of some observables of the system, we perform both classification -- distinguishing sub-Ohmic, Ohmic, and super-Ohmic spectral densities -- and regression -- thus estimating key parameters of the spectral density function, when the latter is expressed through a power law. Our results demonstrate high classification accuracy and robust parameter estimation, highlighting the potential of machine learning as a powerful tool for probing environmental features in quantum systems and advancing quantum noise spectroscopy.
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@article{arxiv.2507.13730,
title = {A machine learning based approach to the identification of spectral densities in quantum open systems},
author = {Jessica Barr and Shreyasi Mukherjee and Alessandro Ferraro and Mauro Paternostro and Giorgio Zicari},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.13730},
year = {2025}
}
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19 pages, 7 figures, comments welcome