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The characterization of Hamiltonians and other components of open quantum dynamical systems plays a crucial role in quantum computing and other applications. Scientific machine learning techniques have been applied to this problem in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Peter Sentz , Stanley Nicholson , Yujin Cho , Sohail Reddy , Brendan Keith , Stefanie Günther

We propose a novel quantum technique to search for unmodeled anomalies in multidimensional binned collider data. We propose associating an Ising lattice spin site with each bin, with the Ising Hamiltonian suitably constructed from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-30 Konstantin T. Matchev , Prasanth Shyamsundar , Jordan Smolinsky

Policy gradient algorithms are widely used in reinforcement learning and belong to the class of approximate dynamic programming methods. This paper studies two key policy gradient algorithms, the Natural Policy Gradient and the Gauss-Newton…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Bowen Song , Sebastien Gros , Andrea Iannelli

Dimensionless learning is a data-driven framework for discovering dimensionless numbers and scaling laws from experimental measurements. This tutorial introduces the method, explaining how it transforms experimental data into compact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Zhengtao Jake Gan , Xiaoyu Xie

We consider a class of Lagrangians that depend not only on some configurational variables and their first time derivatives, but also on second time derivatives, thereby leading to fourth-order evolution equations. The proposed higher-order…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-01-10 Hans Christian Öttinger

Within a strong coupling expansion, we construct local quasi-conserved operators for a class of Hamiltonians that includes both integrable and non-integrable models. We explicitly show that at the lowest orders of perturbation theory the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-08-11 Maurizio Fagotti

The aim of the present text is twofold: to provide a compendium of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian geometries and to introduce and investigate new analytical Mechanics: Finslerian, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian. The fundamental equations (or…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-20 Radu Miron

Using simulations or experiments performed at some set of temperatures to learn about the physics or chemistry at some other arbitrary temperature is a problem of immense practical and theoretical relevance. Here we develop a framework…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-17 Yihang Wang , Lukas Herron , Pratyush Tiwary

We present a learning algorithm for discovering conservation laws given as sums of geometrically local observables in quantum dynamics. This includes conserved quantities that arise from local and global symmetries in closed and open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Yongtao Zhan , Andreas Elben , Hsin-Yuan Huang , Yu Tong

In this paper we show how the well-know local symmetries of Lagrangeans systems, and in particular the diffeomorphism invariance, emerge in the Hamiltonian formulation. We show that only the constraints which are linear in the momenta…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 V. Mukhanov , A. Wipf

The existence or not of pathologies in the context of Lagrangian theory is studied with the aid of Machine Learning algorithms. Using an example in the framework of classical mechanics, we make a proof of concept, that the construction of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Christos Valelis , Fotios K. Anagnostopoulos , Spyros Basilakos , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We develop a statistical method to learn a molecular Hamiltonian matrix from a time-series of electron density matrices. We extend our previous method to larger molecular systems by incorporating physical properties to reduce…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-08-03 Prachi Gupta , Harish S. Bhat , Karnamohit Ranka , Christine M. Isborn

The problem of effective equations is reviewed and discussed. Starting from the classical Langevin equation, we show how it can be generalized to Hamiltonian systems with non-standard kinetic terms. A numerical method for inferring…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-29 Angelo Vulpiani , Marco Baldovin

Identifying the dynamics of physical systems requires a machine learning model that can assimilate observational data, but also incorporate the laws of physics. Neural Networks based on physical principles such as the Hamiltonian or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-22 Jonas Eichelsdörfer , Sebastian Kaltenbach , Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis

We present a numerical approach for approximating unknown Hamiltonian systems using observation data. A distinct feature of the proposed method is that it is structure-preserving, in the sense that it enforces conservation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-13 Kailiang Wu , Tong Qin , Dongbin Xiu

The Hamiltonian formalism plays a central role in classical and quantum physics. Hamiltonians are the main tool for modelling the continuous time evolution of systems with conserved quantities, and they come equipped with many useful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Peter Toth , Danilo Jimenez Rezende , Andrew Jaegle , Sébastien Racanière , Aleksandar Botev , Irina Higgins

Machine-learning models are increasingly used to predict properties of atoms in chemical systems. There have been major advances in developing descriptors and regression frameworks for this task, typically starting from (relatively) small…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 John L. A. Gardner , Zoé Faure Beaulieu , Volker L. Deringer

Cellular automata can show well known features of quantum mechanics, such as a linear rule according to which they evolve and which resembles a discretized version of the Schroedinger equation. This includes corresponding conservation laws.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-25 Hans-Thomas Elze

In a previous article [1] we presented an argument to obtain (or rather infer) Born's rule, based on a simple set of axioms named "Contexts, Systems and Modalities" (CSM). In this approach there is no "emergence", but the structure of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Alexia Auffeves , Philippe Grangier

Non-standard Lagrangians do not display any discernible energy-like terms, yet they give the same equations of motion as standard Lagrangians, which have easily identifiable energy-like terms. A new method to derive non-standard Lagrangians…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-24 Diana T. Pham , Zdzislaw E. Musielak