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Simulating quantum algorithms with classical resources generally requires exponential resources. However, heuristic classical approaches are often very efficient in approximately simulating special circuit structures, for example with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-17 Bjarni Jónsson , Bela Bauer , Giuseppe Carleo

In recent years, the neural-network quantum states method has been investigated to study the ground state and the time evolution of many-body quantum systems. Here we expand on the investigation and consider a quantum quench from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Wenxuan Zhang , Bo Xing , Xiansong Xu , Dario Poletti

Neural-Network Quantum States have been recently introduced as an Ansatz for describing the wave function of quantum many-body systems. We show that there are strong connections between Neural-Network Quantum States in the form of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-08 Ivan Glasser , Nicola Pancotti , Moritz August , Ivan D. Rodriguez , J. Ignacio Cirac

Computing the ground state of interacting quantum matter is a long-standing challenge, especially for complex two-dimensional systems. Recent developments have highlighted the potential of neural quantum states to solve the quantum…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-07-03 Ao Chen , Markus Heyl

In recent years, neural network quantum states (NNQS) have emerged as powerful tools for the study of quantum many-body systems. Electronic structure calculations are one such canonical many-body problem that have attracted significant…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 Thomas D. Barrett , Aleksei Malyshev , A. I. Lvovsky

Many fascinating systems suffer from a severe (complex action) sign problem preventing us from calculating them with Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations. One promising method to alleviate the sign problem is the transformation of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-18 Marcel Rodekamp , Christoph Gäntgen

Neural Quantum States (NQS) are powerful tools used to represent complex quantum many-body states in an increasingly wide range of applications. However, despite their popularity, at present only a rudimentary understanding of their…

Variational Monte Carlo with neural network quantum states has proven to be a promising avenue for evaluating the ground state energy of spin Hamiltonians. However, despite continuous efforts the performance of the method on frustrated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-04 Chae-Yeun Park , Michael J. Kastoryano

Variational quantum calculations have borrowed many tools and algorithms from the machine learning community in the recent years. Leveraging great expressive power and efficient gradient-based optimization, researchers have shown that trial…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-08-19 Matija Medvidović , Javier Robledo Moreno

The simulation of quantum many-body systems poses a significant challenge in physics due to the exponential scaling of Hilbert space with the number of particles. Traditional methods often struggle with large system sizes and frustrated…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-05-27 Avishek Singh , Nirmal Ganguli

The quantum many-body problem lies at the center of the most important open challenges in condensed matter, quantum chemistry, atomic, nuclear, and high-energy physics. While quantum Monte Carlo, when applicable, remains the most powerful…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-30 Hongwei Chen , Douglas Hendry , Phillip Weinberg , Adrian E. Feiguin

A naive classical representation of an n-qubit state requires specifying exponentially many amplitudes in the computational basis. Past works have demonstrated that classical neural networks can succinctly express these amplitudes for many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-31 Tai-Hsuan Yang , Mehdi Soleimanifar , Thiago Bergamaschi , John Preskill

Neural network quantum states emerge as a promising tool for solving quantum many-body problems. However, its successes and limitations are still not well-understood in particular for Fermions with complex sign structures. Based on our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Zhendong Li , Tong Zhao , Bohan Zhang

Due to the strong correlations present in quantum systems, classical machine learning algorithms like stochastic gradient descent are often insufficient for the training of neural network quantum states (NQSs). These difficulties can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-23 J. Thorben Frank , Michael J. Kastoryano

We introduce a variational wave function based on Neural-Network Quantum States (NQS) to study lattice systems whose local Hilbert space contains both spin and fermionic degrees of freedom. Our approach is based on the use of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-04 Riccardo Rende , Alexander Nikolaenko , Luciano Loris Viteritti , Subir Sachdev , Ya-Hui Zhang

A neural network is a powerful tool that can uncover hidden laws beyond human intuition. However, it often appears as a black box due to its complicated nonlinear structures. By drawing upon the Gutzwiller mean-field theory, we can showcase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-25 Jin Cao , Shijie Hu , Zhiping Yin , Ke Xia

We introduce reinforcement learning (RL) formulations of the problem of finding the ground state of a many-body quantum mechanical model defined on a lattice. We show that stoquastic Hamiltonians - those without a sign problem - have a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-13 Willem Gispen , Austen Lamacraft

Projected variational wavefunctions such as the Gutzwiller, many-body correlator and Jastrow ansatzes have provided crucial insight into the nature of superfluid-Mott insulator transition in the Bose Hubbard model (BHM) in two or more…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-10-08 Michael Y. Pei , Stephen R. Clark

Tensor Network States are ans\"atze for the efficient description of quantum many-body systems. Their success for one dimensional problems, together with the fact that they do not suffer from the sign problem and can address the simulation…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-09-21 Mari Carmen Bañuls , Krzysztof Cichy , J. Ignacio Cirac , Karl Jansen , Stefan Kühn

Quantum state tomography (QST) aiming at reconstructing the density matrix of a quantum state plays an important role in various emerging quantum technologies. Recognizing the challenges posed by imperfect measurement data, we develop a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Hailan Ma , Daoyi Dong , Ian R. Petersen , Chang-Jiang Huang , Guo-Yong Xiang