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Neural-network quantum states have emerged as a powerful variational framework for quantum many-body systems, with recent progress often driven by massively parallel architectures such as transformers. Recurrent neural network quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-14 Ejaaz Merali , Mohamed Hibat-Allah , Mohammad Kohandel , Richard T. Scalettar , Ehsan Khatami

Neural Quantum States (NQS) have demonstrated significant potential in approximating ground states of many-body quantum systems, though their performance can be inconsistent across different models. This study investigates the performance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Eimantas Ledinauskas , Egidijus Anisimovas

In this note, variational Monte Carlo method based on neural quantum states for spin systems is reviewed. Using a neural network as the wave function allows for a more generalized expression of various types of interactions, including…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-04 Yuntai Song

Neural networks (NNs) representing quantum states are typically trained using Markov chain Monte Carlo based methods. However, unless specifically designed, such samplers only consist of local moves, making the slow-mixing problem prominent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 Yuan-Hang Zhang , Massimiliano Di Ventra

The nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLSE) underpins nonlinear wave phenomena in optics, Bose-Einstein condensates, and plasma physics, but computing its excited states remains challenging due to nonlinearity-induced non-orthonormality.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-13 Mingshu Zhao , Zhanyuan Yan

Neural quantum state (NQS) ans\"atze have shown promise in variational Monte Carlo algorithms by their theoretical capability of representing any quantum state. However, the reason behind the practical improvement in their performance with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Sidhartha Dash , Luca Gravina , Filippo Vicentini , Michel Ferrero , Antoine Georges

Due to their immense representative power, neural network quantum states (NQS) have gained significant interest in current research. In recent advances in the field of NQS, it has been demonstrated that this approach can compete with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-10-21 Fabian Döschl , Felix A. Palm , Hannah Lange , Fabian Grusdt , Annabelle Bohrdt

The rapid development of neural quantum states (NQS) has established it as a promising framework for studying quantum many-body systems. In this work, by leveraging the cutting-edge transformer-based architectures and developing highly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-11 Yuntian Gu , Wenrui Li , Heng Lin , Bo Zhan , Ruichen Li , Yifei Huang , Di He , Yantao Wu , Tao Xiang , Mingpu Qin , Liwei Wang , Dingshun Lv

We apply the variational Monte Carlo method based on neural network quantum states, using a neural autoregressive flow architecture as our ansatz, to determine the ground state wave function of the bosonic SU($N$) Yang-Mills-type two-matrix…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-19 Norbert Bodendorfer , Onur Oktay , Vaibhav Gautam , Masanori Hanada , Enrico Rinaldi

Fracton models host unconventional topological orders in three and higher dimensions and provide promising candidates for quantum memory platforms. Understanding their robustness against quantum fluctuations is an important task but also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Marc Machaczek , Lode Pollet , Ke Liu

We consider the Feynman-Kitaev formalism applied to a spin chain described by the transverse field Ising model. This formalism consists of building a Hamiltonian whose ground state encodes the time evolution of the spin chain at discrete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Vladimir Vargas-Calderón , Herbert Vinck-Posada , Fabio A. González

We introduce an efficient approach to implement neural network quantum states (NNQS) as trial wavefunctions in auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC). NNQS are a recently developed class of variational ans\"atze capable of flexibly…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Zhi-Yu Xiao , Bowen Kan , Huan Ma , Bowen Zhao , Honghui Shang

Due to the exponential growth of the Hilbert space dimension with system size, the simulation of quantum many-body systems has remained a persistent challenge until today. Here, we review a relatively new class of variational states for the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-07-29 Hannah Lange , Anka Van de Walle , Atiye Abedinnia , Annabelle Bohrdt

Feed-forward neural networks are a novel class of variational wave functions for correlated many-body quantum systems. Here, we propose a specific neural network ansatz suitable for systems with real-valued wave functions. Its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-06 Ao Chen , Kenny Choo , Nikita Astrakhantsev , Titus Neupert

Neural-network quantum states (NQS) have become a powerful tool in many-body physics. Of the numerous possible architectures in which neural-networks can encode amplitudes of quantum states the simplicity of the Restricted Boltzmann Machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Michael Y. Pei , Stephen R. Clark

We propose a hybrid variational framework that enhances Neural Quantum States (NQS) with a Normalising Flow-based sampler to improve the expressivity and trainability of quantum many-body wavefunctions. Our approach decouples the sampling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Vishal S. Ngairangbam , Michael Spannowsky , Timur Sypchenko

Neural quantum states (NQS) have emerged as a powerful ansatz for variational quantum Monte Carlo studies of strongly-correlated systems. Here, we apply recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and autoregressive transformer neural networks to the…

Foundation models are highly versatile neural-network architectures capable of processing different data types, such as text and images, and generalizing across various tasks like classification and generation. Inspired by this success, we…

The representation of a quantum wave function as a neural network quantum state (NQS) provides a powerful variational ansatz for finding the ground states of many-body quantum systems. Nevertheless, due to the complex variational landscape,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Eimantas Ledinauskas , Egidijus Anisimovas

Neural quantum states are a new family of variational ans\"atze for quantum-many body wave functions with advantageous properties in the notoriously challenging case of two spatial dimensions. Since their introduction a wide variety of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-24 Moritz Reh , Markus Schmitt , Martin Gärttner