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Recently, artificial intelligence for science has made significant inroads into various fields of natural science research. In the field of quantum many-body computation, researchers have developed numerous ground state solvers based on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-26 Jia-Qi Wang , Rong-Qiang He , Zhong-Yi Lu

The extraction of the static quark-antiquark potential from lattice QCD suffers from the poor signal-to-noise ratio of Wilson loops at large Euclidean times. To overcome this, smearing methods or the Coulomb gauge are used to improve the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-09 Julian Mayer-Steudte

Neural-network-based variational quantum states in general, and more recently autoregressive models in particular, have proven to be powerful tools to describe complex many-body wave functions. However, their performance crucially depends…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-02 João Augusto Sobral , Michael Perle , Mathias S. Scheurer

Deep neural network quantum states have emerged as a leading method for studying the ground states of quantum magnets. Successful architectures exploit translational symmetry, but the root of their effectiveness and differences between…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-28 Rajah P. Nutakki , Ahmedeo Shokry , Filippo Vicentini

Methods inspired from machine learning have recently attracted great interest in the computational study of quantum many-particle systems. So far, however, it has proven challenging to deal with microscopic models in which the total number…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-01 Wojciech Rzadkowski , Mikhail Lemeshko , Johan H. Mentink

Quantum machine learning offers a promising advantage in extracting information about quantum states, e.g. phase diagram. However, access to training labels is a major bottleneck for any supervised approach, preventing getting insights…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-13 Saverio Monaco , Oriel Kiss , Antonio Mandarino , Sofia Vallecorsa , Michele Grossi

We discuss designer Hamiltonians---lattice models tailored to be free from sign problems ("de-signed") when simulated with quantum Monte Carlo methods but which still host complex many-body states and quantum phase transitions of interest…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-28 Ribhu K. Kaul , Roger G. Melko , Anders W. Sandvik

The great majority of algorithms employed in the study of lattice field theory are based on Monte Carlo's importance sampling method, i.e. on probability interpretation of the Boltzmann weight. Unfortunately in many theories of interest one…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-06-03 Lorenzo Bongiovanni

The challenge posed by the many-body problem in quantum physics originates from the difficulty of describing the non-trivial correlations encoded in the exponential complexity of the many-body wave function. Here we demonstrate that…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-02-13 Giuseppe Carleo , Matthias Troyer

Simulating quantum many-body dynamics on classical computers is a challenging problem due to the exponential growth of the Hilbert space. Artificial neural networks have recently been introduced as a new tool to approximate quantum-many…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-05-25 Sheng-Hsuan Lin , Frank Pollmann

We present an overview of the method of Neural Quantum States applied to the many-body problem of atomic nuclei. Through the lens of group representation theory, we focus on the problem of constructing neural-network ans\"atze that respect…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-11-19 J. Rozalén Sarmiento , A. Rios

Gauge symmetries play a key role in physics appearing in areas such as quantum field theories of the fundamental particles and emergent degrees of freedom in quantum materials. Motivated by the desire to efficiently simulate many-body…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-13 Di Luo , Giuseppe Carleo , Bryan K. Clark , James Stokes

Quantum Monte Carlo methods are sophisticated numerical techniques for simulating interacting quantum systems. In some cases, however, they suffer from the notorious "sign problem" and become too inefficient to be useful. A recent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-05-16 K. S. D. Beach , Matthieu Mambrini , Fabien Alet

We study whether neural quantum states based on multi-layer feed-forward networks can find ground states which exhibit volume-law entanglement entropy. As a testbed, we employ the paradigmatic Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model. We find that both…

The classification of quantum states into distinct classes poses a significant challenge. In this study, we address this problem using quantum neural networks in combination with a problem-inspired circuit and customised as well as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Diksha Sharma , Vivek Balasaheb Sabale , Thirumalai M. , Atul Kumar

We study the performance of efficient quantum state tomography methods based on neural network quantum states using measured data from a two-photon experiment. Machine learning inspired variational methods provide a promising route towards…

Neural-network variational Monte Carlo (NNVMC) has emerged as a powerful tool for solving quantum many-body problems, yet systematic pathways for improving its accuracy remain largely heuristic. Here, we introduce a physically motivated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-20 Zhixuan Liu , Dongheng Qian , Jing Wang

We propose an approach to study the ground state of quantum many-body systems in which Tensor Network States (TNS), specifically Projected Entangled Pair States (PEPS), and Green's function Monte Carlo (GFMC) are combined. PEPS, by design,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-29 Mingpu Qin

Quantum systems with geometrical frustration remain an outstanding challenge for numerical simulations due to the infamous numerical sign problem. Here, we overcome this obstruction via complex path integration in a geometrically frustrated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-02 Elyasaf Y. Cohen , Andrei Alexandru , Snir Gazit

Near-term quantum computers provide a promising platform for finding ground states of quantum systems, which is an essential task in physics, chemistry, and materials science. Near-term approaches, however, are constrained by the effects of…