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Deep Quantum Geometry of Matrices

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-04-01 v2

Abstract

We employ machine learning techniques to provide accurate variational wavefunctions for matrix quantum mechanics, with multiple bosonic and fermionic matrices. Variational quantum Monte Carlo is implemented with deep generative flows to search for gauge invariant low energy states. The ground state, and also long-lived metastable states, of an SU(N)\mathrm{SU}(N) matrix quantum mechanics with three bosonic matrices, as well as its supersymmetric `mini-BMN' extension, are studied as a function of coupling and NN. Known semiclassical fuzzy sphere states are recovered, and the collapse of these geometries in more strongly quantum regimes is probed using the variational wavefunction. We then describe a factorization of the quantum mechanical Hilbert space that corresponds to a spatial partition of the emergent geometry. Under this partition, the fuzzy sphere states show a boundary-law entanglement entropy in the large NN limit.

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@article{arxiv.1906.08781,
  title  = {Deep Quantum Geometry of Matrices},
  author = {Xizhi Han and Sean A. Hartnoll},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.08781},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

36+26 pages. 16 Figs. v2: added results on small nu limit. Code available online: https://github.com/hanxzh94/matrix-model

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