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Variational Monte Carlo calculations have recently reached state-of-the-art accuracy in the approximation of ground state properties of quantum many-body systems. Making use of flexible neural quantum states and automatic differentiation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Anton Hul , Matija Medvidović , Juan Carrasquilla

Neural networks are emerging as a powerful tool for determining the quantum states of interacting many-body fermionic systems. The standard approach trains a neural-network ansatz by minimizing the mean local energy estimated from Monte…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-02 Dezhe Z. Jin

Neural networks have been used as variational wave functions for quantum many-particle problems. It has been shown that the correct sign structure is crucial to obtain the high accurate ground state energies. In this work, we propose a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-27 Xiao Liang , Shao-Jun Dong , Lixin He

In this paper, we demonstrate the expressibility of artificial neural networks (ANNs) in quantum many-body physics by showing that a feed-forward neural network with a small number of hidden layers can be trained to approximate with high…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-17 Zi Cai , Jinguo Liu

Machine-learning-based variational Monte Carlo simulations are a promising approach for targeting quantum many-body ground states, especially in two dimensions and in cases where the ground state is known to have a non-trivial sign…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-14 M. Schuyler Moss , Roeland Wiersema , Mohamed Hibat-Allah , Juan Carrasquilla , Roger G. Melko

Neural-Network Quantum State (NQS) has attracted significant interests as a powerful wave-function ansatz to model quantum phenomena. In particular, a variant of NQS based on the restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) has been adapted to model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-09 Chang-yu Hsieh , Qiming Sun , Shengyu Zhang , Chee Kong Lee

Neural Quantum States (NQS) are a class of variational wave functions parametrized by neural networks (NNs) to study quantum many-body systems. In this work, we propose \texttt{SineKAN}, a NQS \textit{ansatz} based on Kolmogorov-Arnold…

Solving quantum many-body problems is one of the fundamental challenges in quantum chemistry. While neural network quantum states (NQS) have emerged as a promising computational tool, its training process incurs exponentially growing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Hongtao Xu , Zibo Wu , Mingzhen Li , Weile Jia

We show that neural quantum states based on very deep (4--16-layered) neural networks can outperform state-of-the-art variational approaches on highly frustrated quantum magnets, including quantum-spin-liquid candidates. We focus on group…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-25 Christopher Roth , Attila Szabó , Allan MacDonald

Neural networks are being used to improve the probing of the state spaces of many particle systems as approximations to wavefunctions and in order to avoid the recurring sign problem of quantum monte-carlo. One may ask whether the usual…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Andrei T. Patrascu

Neural-network quantum states (NQS) has emerged as a powerful application of quantum-inspired deep learning for variational Monte Carlo methods, offering a competitive alternative to existing techniques for identifying ground states of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Oliver Knitter , Dan Zhao , James Stokes , Martin Ganahl , Stefan Leichenauer , Shravan Veerapaneni

Owing to their great expressivity and versatility, neural networks have gained attention for simulating large two-dimensional quantum many-body systems. However, their expressivity comes with the cost of a challenging optimization due to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-03-26 Hannah Lange , Guillaume Bornet , Gabriel Emperauger , Cheng Chen , Thierry Lahaye , Stefan Kienle , Antoine Browaeys , Annabelle Bohrdt

Recent research has demonstrated the usefulness of neural networks as variational ansatz functions for quantum many-body states. However, high-dimensional sampling spaces and transient autocorrelations confront these approaches with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-29 Robert Klassert , Andreas Baumbach , Mihai A. Petrovici , Martin Gärttner

We present proof-of-principle time-dependent neural quantum state (NQS) simulations to illustrate the ability of this approach to effectively capture key aspects of quantum dynamics in the continuum. NQS leverage the parameterization of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Alejandro Romero-Ros , Javier Rozalén Sarmiento , Arnau Rios

Neural quantum states are a promising framework for simulating many-body quantum dynamics, as they can represent states with volume-law entanglement. As time evolves, the neural network parameters are typically optimized at discrete time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Dingzu Wang , Wenxuan Zhang , Xiansong Xu , Dario Poletti

We compute the ground-state properties of fully polarized, trapped, one-dimensional fermionic systems interacting through a gaussian potential. We use an antisymmetric artificial neural network, or neural quantum state, as an ansatz for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-09 J. W. T. Keeble , M. Drissi , A. Rojo-Francàs , B. Juliá-Díaz , A. Rios

We conduct experimental simulations of many body quantum systems using a \emph{hybrid} classical-quantum algorithm. In our setup, the wave function of the transverse field quantum Ising model is represented by a restricted Boltzmann…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Bartłomiej Gardas , Marek M. Rams , Jacek Dziarmaga

Combining insights from machine learning and quantum Monte Carlo, the stochastic reconfiguration method with neural network Ansatz states is a promising new direction for high-precision ground state estimation of quantum many-body problems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Chae-Yeun Park , Michael J. Kastoryano

Neural network quantum states (NQS), incorporating with variational Monte Carlo (VMC) method, are shown to be a promising way to investigate quantum many-body physics. Whereas vanilla VMC methods perform one gradient update per sample, we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-11-01 Feng Chen , Ming Xue

Neural Network Quantum States (NQS) represent quantum wavefunctions by artificial neural networks. Here we study the wavefunction access provided by NQS defined in [Science, \textbf{355}, 6325, pp. 602-606 (2017)] and relate it to results…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Vojtech Havlicek