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Scientific computing has long relied on double precision (64-bit floating point) arithmetic to guarantee accuracy in simulations of real-world phenomena. However, the growing availability of hardware accelerators such as Graphics Processing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Massimo Solinas , Agnes Valenti , Nawaf Bou-Rabee , Roeland Wiersema

We propose a hybrid variational framework that enhances Neural Quantum States (NQS) with a Normalising Flow-based sampler to improve the expressivity and trainability of quantum many-body wavefunctions. Our approach decouples the sampling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Vishal S. Ngairangbam , Michael Spannowsky , Timur Sypchenko

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

We introduce an efficient approach to implement neural network quantum states (NNQS) as trial wavefunctions in auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC). NNQS are a recently developed class of variational ans\"atze capable of flexibly…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Zhi-Yu Xiao , Bowen Kan , Huan Ma , Bowen Zhao , Honghui Shang

Recent progress in the design and optimization of neural-network quantum states (NQSs) has made them an effective method to investigate ground-state properties of quantum many-body systems. In contrast to the standard approach of training a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-12-18 Riccardo Rende , Sebastian Goldt , Federico Becca , Luciano Loris Viteritti

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

As neural networks are known to efficiently represent classes of tensor-network states as well as volume-law-entangled states, identifying which properties determine the representational capabilities of neural quantum states (NQS) remains…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-31 James W. T. Keeble , Alessandro Lovato , Caroline E. P. Robin

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

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

The rapid development of neural quantum states (NQS) has established it as a promising framework for studying quantum many-body systems. In this work, by leveraging the cutting-edge transformer-based architectures and developing highly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-11 Yuntian Gu , Wenrui Li , Heng Lin , Bo Zhan , Ruichen Li , Yifei Huang , Di He , Yantao Wu , Tao Xiang , Mingpu Qin , Liwei Wang , Dingshun Lv

Neural network quantum states are a promising tool to analyze complex quantum systems given their representative power. It can however be difficult to optimize efficiently and effectively the parameters of this type of ansatz. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Wenxuan Zhang , Xiansong Xu , Zheyu Wu , Vinitha Balachandran , Dario Poletti

Variational approaches, such as variational Monte Carlo (VMC) or the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE), are powerful techniques to tackle the ground-state many-electron problem. Often, the family of variational states is not invariant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-10 Javier Robledo Moreno , Jeffrey Cohn , Dries Sels , Mario Motta

The ground state of second-quantized quantum chemistry Hamiltonians provides access to an important set of chemical properties. Wavefunctions based on ML architectures have shown promise in approximating these ground states in a variety of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 An-Jun Liu , Bryan K. Clark

The representation of a quantum wave function as a neural network quantum state (NQS) provides a powerful variational ansatz for finding the ground states of many-body quantum systems. Nevertheless, due to the complex variational landscape,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Eimantas Ledinauskas , Egidijus Anisimovas

Efficient quantum circuit optimization schemes are central to quantum simulation of strongly interacting quantum many body systems. Here, we present an optimization algorithm which combines machine learning techniques and tensor network…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-23 David Rogerson , Ananda Roy

We utilize neural network quantum states (NQS) to investigate the ground state properties of the Heisenberg model on a Shastry-Sutherland lattice using the variational Monte Carlo method. We show that already relatively simple NQSs can be…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-02-07 Matěj Mezera , Jana Menšíková , Pavel Baláž , Martin Žonda

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…

Quantum state reconstruction using Neural Quantum States has been proposed as a viable tool to reduce quantum shot complexity in practical applications, and its advantage over competing techniques has been shown in numerical experiments…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Haimeng Zhao , Giuseppe Carleo , Filippo Vicentini

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 execution of quantum algorithms on modern hardware is often constrained by noise and qubit decoherence, limiting the circuit depth and the number of gates that can be executed. Circuit optimization techniques help mitigate these…