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We proposed a framework for the topological classification of non-Hermitian systems. Different from previous $K$-theoretical approaches, our approach is a homotopy classification, which enables us to see more topological invariants.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-09 Zhi Li , Roger S. K. Mong

Topological data analysis is an emerging field that applies the study of topological invariants to data. Perhaps the simplest of these invariants is the number of connected components or clusters. In this work, we explore a topological…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Ian Stewart Joyce , Grant Erdmann , Kirk P. Gardner , Ryan Kramer , Kyle Siegrist

We consider the problem of analyzing the structure of spectroscopic cubes using unsupervised machine learning techniques. We propose representing the target's signal as a homogeneous set of volumes through an iterative algorithm that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-15 Mauricio Araya , Marcelo Mendoza , Mauricio Solar , Diego Mardones , Amelia Bayo

We explore unsupervised machine learning for galaxy morphology analyses using a combination of feature extraction with a vector-quantised variational autoencoder (VQ-VAE) and hierarchical clustering (HC). We propose a new methodology that…

Neural networks can be used to identify phases and phase transitions in condensed matter systems via supervised machine learning. Readily programmable through modern software libraries, we show that a standard feed-forward neural network…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-24 Juan Carrasquilla , Roger G. Melko

In unsupervised learning, the training data for deep learning does not come with any labels, thus forcing the algorithm to discover hidden patterns in the data for discerning useful information. This, in principle, could be a powerful tool…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-17 Jacob Taylor , Haining Pan , Sankar Das Sarma

Images of line drawings are generally composed of primitive elements. One of the most fundamental elements to characterize images is the topology; line segments belong to a category different from closed circles, and closed circles with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Kenji Fukushima , Shotaro Shiba Funai , Hideaki Iida

Searching for topological insulators/superconductors is a central subject in recent condensed matter physics. As a theoretical aspect, various classification methods of symmetry-protected topological phases have been developed, where the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-01 Shuntaro Sumita , Youichi Yanase

Unsupervised machine learning methods are used to identify structural changes using the melting point transition in classical molecular dynamics simulations as an example application of the approach. Dimensionality reduction and clustering…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Nicholas Walker , Ka-Ming Tam , Brian Novak , M. Jarrell

We introduce a simple, fast, and easy to implement unsupervised learning algorithm for detecting different local environments on a single-particle level in colloidal systems. In this algorithm, we use a vector of standard bond-orientational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-01-08 Emanuele Boattini , Marjolein Dijkstra , Laura Filion

An unsupervised shape analysis is proposed to learn concepts reflecting shape commonalities. Our approach is two-fold: i) a spatial topology analysis of point cloud segment constellations within objects is used in which constellations are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Christian A. Mueller , Andreas Birk

We apply a recently developed unsupervised machine learning scheme for local atomic environments to characterize large-scale, disordered aggregates formed by sequence-defined macromolecules. This method provides new insight into the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-01-03 Antonia Statt , Devon C. Kleeblatt , Wesley F. Reinhart

Different techniques from machine learning are applied to the problem of computing line bundle cohomologies of (hypersurfaces in) toric varieties. While a naive approach of training a neural network to reproduce the cohomologies fails in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-09 Daniel Klaewer , Lorenz Schlechter

We present a framework to systematically address topological phases when finer partitionings of bands are taken into account, rather than only considering the two subspaces spanned by valence and conduction bands. Focusing on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-18 Adrien Bouhon , Tomáš Bzdušek , Robert-Jan Slager

We develop the topological band theory for systems described by non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, whose energy spectra are generally complex. After generalizing the notion of gapped band structures to the non-Hermitian case, we classify "gapped"…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 Huitao Shen , Bo Zhen , Liang Fu

We revisit the problem of classifying topological band structures in non-Hermitian systems. Recently, a solution has been proposed, which is based on redefining the notion of energy band gap in two different ways, leading to the so-called…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Charles C. Wojcik , Xiao-Qi Sun , Tomáš Bzdušek , Shanhui Fan

Topological invariants allow to characterize Hamiltonians, predicting the existence of topologically protected in-gap modes. Those invariants can be computed by tracing the evolution of the occupied wavefunctions under twisted boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 D. Carvalho , N. A. Garcia-Martinez , J. L. Lado , J. Fernandez-Rossier

We identify configurational phases and structural transitions in a polymer nanotube composite by means of machine learning. We employ various unsupervised dimensionality reduction methods, conventional neural networks, as well as the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-04-06 Quinn Parker , Dilina Perera , Ying Wai Li , Thomas Vogel

In recent years, developing unsupervised machine learning for identifying phase transition is a research direction. In this paper, we introduce a two-times clustering method that can help select perfect configurations from a set of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-05-30 Nan Wu , Zhuohan Li , Wanzhou Zhang

We revisit the problem of characterizing band topology in dynamically-stable quadratic bosonic Hamiltonians that do not conserve particle number. We show this problem can be rigorously addressed by a smooth and local adiabatic mapping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Gaurav Chaudhary , Michael Levin , Aashish A. Clerk