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Multi-timescale time encoding for CNN prediction of Fenna-Matthews-Olson energy-transfer dynamics

Chemical Physics 2025-12-11 v4 Machine Learning Quantum Physics

Abstract

Machine learning simulations of open quantum dynamics often rely on recursive predictors that accumulate error. We develop a non-recursive convolutional neural networks (CNNs) that maps system parameters and a redundant time encoding directly to excitation-energy-transfer populations in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex. The encoding-modified logistic plus tanh\tanh functions-normalizes time and resolves fast, transitional, and quasi-steady regimes, while physics-informed labels enforce population conservation and inter-site consistency. Trained only on 07ps0\sim 7 ps reference trajectories generated with a Lindblad model in QuTiP, the network accurately predicts 0100ps0\sim100 ps dynamics across a range of reorganization energies, bath rates, and temperatures. Beyond 20ps20 ps, the absolute relative error remains below 0.05, demonstrating stable long-time extrapolation. By avoiding step-by-step recursion, the method suppresses error accumulation and generalizes across timescales. These results show that redundant time encoding enables data-efficient inference of long-time quantum dissipative dynamics in realistic pigment-protein complexes, and may aid the data-driven design of light-harvesting materials.

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@article{arxiv.2503.17430,
  title  = {Multi-timescale time encoding for CNN prediction of Fenna-Matthews-Olson energy-transfer dynamics},
  author = {Shun-Cai Zhao and Yi-Meng Huang and Yi-Fan Yang and Zi-Ran Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.17430},
  year   = {2025}
}

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8 pages, 5figures