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Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods offer exact solutions for quantum many-body systems but face severe limitations in fermionic systems like atomic nuclei due to the sign problem. While sign-problem-free QMC algorithms exist and provide…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-06 Zhong-Wang Niu , Bing-Nan Lu

The possibility to simulate the properties of many-body open quantum systems with a large number of degrees of freedom is the premise to the solution of several outstanding problems in quantum science and quantum information. The challenge…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Alexandra Nagy , Vincenzo Savona

Quantum machine learning (QML) shows promise for analyzing quantum data. A notable example is the use of quantum convolutional neural networks (QCNNs), implemented as specific types of quantum circuits, to recognize phases of matter. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Chukwudubem Umeano , Annie E. Paine , Vincent E. Elfving , Oleksandr Kyriienko

In quantum many-body problems, one of the main difficulties comes from the description of non-negligible interactions which require, at least in principle, an exponential amount of information. Recently, in the context of spin glasses and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-25 Jean Michel Sellier

Monte Carlo calculations in the framework of lattice field theory provide non-perturbative access to the equilibrium physics of quantum fields. When applied to certain fermionic systems, or to the calculation of out-of-equilibrium physics,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-06-23 Scott Lawrence

We try to design a quantum neural network with qubits instead of classical neurons with deterministic states, and also with quantum operators replacing teh classical action potentials. With our choice of gates interconnecting teh neural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fariel Shafee

Systems of correlated quantum matter can be a steep challenge to any would-be method of solution. Matrix-product state (MPS)-based methods can describe 1D systems quasiexactly, but often struggle to retain sufficient bipartite entanglement…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-04 Gunnar Bollmark , Sam Mardazad , Johannes S. Hofmann , Adrian Kantian

Simulating the dynamics of many-body quantum systems is a significant challenge, especially in higher dimensions where entanglement grows rapidly. Neural quantum states (NQS) offer a promising tool for representing quantum wavefunctions,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Anka Van de Walle , Markus Schmitt , Annabelle Bohrdt

It is believed that one of the first useful applications for a quantum computer will be the preparation of groundstates of molecular Hamiltonians. A crucial task involving state preparation and readout is obtaining physical observables of…

Neural-network quantum states have recently emerged as a powerful method for solving quantum many-body problems, with notable successes in lattice systems. Here, we extend this approach to strongly interacting few-body problems in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-07 Sora Yokoi , Shimpei Endo , Hiroki Saito

A long-standing goal of nuclear theory is to explain how the structure and dynamics of atomic nuclei and neutron-star matter emerge from the underlying interactions among protons and neutrons. Achieving this goal requires solving the…

The task of classifying the entanglement properties of a multipartite quantum state poses a remarkable challenge due to the exponentially increasing number of ways in which quantum systems can share quantum correlations. Tackling such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Cillian Harney , Stefano Pirandola , Alessandro Ferraro , Mauro Paternostro

We study infinite limits of neural network quantum states ($\infty$-NNQS), which exhibit representation power through ensemble statistics, and also tractable gradient descent dynamics. Ensemble averages of Renyi entropies are expressed in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-29 Di Luo , James Halverson

Neural-network quantum states (NQS) offer a powerful and expressive ansatz for representing quantum many-body wave functions. However, their training via Variational Monte Carlo (VMC) methods remains challenging. It is well known that some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Antoine Misery , Luca Gravina , Alessandro Santini , Filippo Vicentini

Quantum field theories (QFTs) at finite densities of matter generically involve complex actions. Standard Monte-Carlo simulations based upon importance sampling, which have been producing quantitative first principle results in particle…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-08-24 Christof Gattringer , Kurt Langfeld

We describe a class of neuralized fermionic tensor network states (NN-fTNS) that introduce non-linearity into fermionic tensor networks through configuration-dependent neural network transformations of the local tensors. The construction…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-22 Si-Jing Du , Ao Chen , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

Simulating strongly correlated fermionic systems remains a fundamental challenge in quantum physics, largely due to the sign problem in quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods. We present a neural network-based variational Monte Carlo (NN-VMC)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 William Freitas , B. Abreu , S. A. Vitiello

Lattice Monte Carlo calculations of interacting systems on non-bipartite lattices exhibit an oscillatory imaginary phase known as the phase or sign problem, even at zero chemical potential. One method to alleviate the sign problem is to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-31 Jan-Lukas Wynen , Evan Berkowitz , Stefan Krieg , Thomas Luu , Johann Ostmeyer

Numerically simulating spinful, fermionic systems is of great interest from the perspective of condensed matter physics. However, the exponential growth of the Hilbert space dimension with system size renders an exact parameterization of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-10 Hannah Lange , Fabian Döschl , Juan Carrasquilla , Annabelle Bohrdt

Neural quantum states have established themselves as a powerful and versatile family of ansatzes for variational Monte Carlo simulations of quantum many-body systems. Of particular prominence are autoregressive neural quantum states (ANQS),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-09 Aleksei Malyshev , Juan Miguel Arrazola , A. I. Lvovsky