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Neural-network quantum states at finite temperature

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2020-03-18 v1 Quantum Gases Quantum Physics

Abstract

We propose a method to obtain the thermal-equilibrium density matrix of a many-body quantum system using artificial neural networks. The variational function of the many-body density matrix is represented by a convolutional neural network with two input channels. We first prepare an infinite-temperature state, and the temperature is lowered by imaginary-time evolution. We apply this method to the one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model and compare the results with those obtained by exact diagonalization.

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@article{arxiv.1911.02774,
  title  = {Neural-network quantum states at finite temperature},
  author = {Naoki Irikura and Hiroki Saito},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.02774},
  year   = {2020}
}

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6 pages, 3 figures

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