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Neural quantum states (NQS) have emerged as a powerful variational ansatz for representing quantum many-body wave functions. Their internal mechanisms, however, remain poorly understood. We investigate the role of correlations for NQS-like…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Fabian Döschl , Annabelle Bohrdt

Correlator product states (CPS) are a powerful and very broad class of states for quantum lattice systems whose amplitudes can be sampled exactly and efficiently. They work by gluing together states of overlapping clusters of sites on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-16 Stephen R. Clark

Neural quantum states (NQS) provide flexible and compact wavefunction parameterizations for numerical studies of quantum many-body physics. In particular, NQS aim to circumvent the exponential scaling of the Hilbert space by compressing…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-17 M. Schuyler Moss , Alev Orfi , Christopher Roth , Anirvan M. Sengupta , Antoine Georges , Dries Sels , Anna Dawid , Agnes Valenti

Variational wavefunctions offer a practical route around the exponential complexity of many-body Hilbert spaces, but their expressive power is often sharply constrained. Matrix product states, for instance, are efficient but limited to area…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Nisarga Paul

We propose a new quantum Monte Carlo algorithm to compute fermion ground-state properties. The ground state is projected from an initial wavefunction by a branching random walk in an over-complete basis space of Slater determinants. By…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Shiwei Zhang , J. Carlson , J. E. Gubernatis

Quantum Monte Carlo coupled with neural network wavefunctions has shown success in computing ground states of quantum many-body systems. Existing optimization approaches compute the energy by sampling local energy from an explicit…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-05-29 Xuan Zhang , Shenglong Xu , Shuiwang Ji

State-of-the-art machine learning techniques promise to become a powerful tool in statistical mechanics via their capacity to distinguish different phases of matter in an automated way. Here we demonstrate that convolutional neural networks…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-23 Peter Broecker , Juan Carrasquilla , Roger G. Melko , Simon Trebst

The recently proposed full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo method allows access to essentially exact ground-state energies of systems of interacting fermions substantially larger than previously tractable without knowledge of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-12-17 J. S. Spencer , N. S. Blunt , W. M. C. Foulkes

Quantum ground-state problems are computationally hard problems; for general many-body Hamiltonians, there is no classical or quantum algorithm known to be able to solve them efficiently. Nevertheless, if a trial wavefunction approximating…

The ground state of second-quantized quantum chemistry Hamiltonians is key to determining molecular properties. Neural quantum states (NQS) offer flexible and expressive wavefunction ansatze for this task but face two main challenges:…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 An-Jun Liu , Bryan K. Clark

The use of artificial neural networks to represent quantum wave-functions has recently attracted interest as a way to solve complex many-body problems. The potential of these variational parameterizations has been supported by analytical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-18 Kenny Choo , Titus Neupert , Giuseppe Carleo

Neural quantum states (NQS) have emerged as powerful tools for simulating many-body quantum systems, but their practical use is often hindered by limitations of current sampling techniques. Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods suffer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Eimantas Ledinauskas , Egidijus Anisimovas

Solving ground states of quantum many-body systems has been a long-standing problem in condensed matter physics. Here, we propose a new unsupervised machine learning algorithm to find the ground state of a general quantum many-body system…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-06-27 Jiaxin Wu , Wenjuan Zhang

We find an efficient approach to approximately convert matrix product states (MPSs) into restricted Boltzmann machine wave functions consisting of a multinomial hidden unit through a canonical polyadic (CP) decomposition of the MPSs. This…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-29 Ryui Kaneko , Shimpei Goto

Variational quantum algorithms hold great promise for unlocking the power of near-term quantum processors, yet high measurement costs, barren plateaus, and challenging optimization landscapes frequently hinder them. Here, we introduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Mengzhen Ren , Yu-Cheng Chen , Yangsen Ye , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Alice Hu , Chang-Yu Hsieh

Neural network quantum states (NQS) have been widely applied to spin-1/2 systems where they have proven to be highly effective. The application to systems with larger on-site dimension, such as spin-1 or bosonic systems, has been explored…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-22 Michael Y. Pei , Stephen R. Clark

Neural quantum states (NQS) are a novel class of variational many-body wave functions that are very flexible in approximating diverse quantum states. Optimization of an NQS ansatz requires sampling from the corresponding probability…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-15 Andrey A. Bagrov , Askar A. Iliasov , Tom Westerhout

Neural quantum states (NQS) have emerged as a powerful tool for approximating quantum wavefunctions using deep learning. While these models achieve remarkable accuracy, understanding how they encode physical information remains an open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-21 Vinicius Hernandes , Thomas Spriggs , Saqar Khaleefah , Eliska Greplova

Establishing a predictive ab initio method for solid systems is one of the fundamental goals in condensed matter physics and computational materials science. The central challenge is how to encode a highly-complex quantum-many-body wave…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-25 Nobuyuki Yoshioka , Wataru Mizukami , Franco Nori

We study sign structures of the ground states of spin-$1/2$ magnetic systems using the methods of Boolean Fourier analysis. Previously it was shown that the sign structures of frustrated systems are of complex nature: specifically, neural…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-08-14 Ilya Schurov , Anna Kravchenko , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Andrey A. Bagrov , Tom Westerhout
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