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Neural quantum states (NQS) are powerful ans\"atze in the variational Monte Carlo framework, yet their architectures are often treated as black boxes. We propose a physically transparent framework in which NQS are treated as neural…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-04 Kimihiro Yamazaki , Itsushi Sakata , Takuya Konishi , Yoshinobu Kawahara

Transformer neural networks, known for their ability to recognize complex patterns in high-dimensional data, offer a promising framework for capturing many-body correlations in quantum systems. We employ an adapted Vision Transformer (ViT)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-26 Xiaodong Cao , Zhicheng Zhong , Yi Lu

Variational methods have proven to be excellent tools to approximate ground states of complex many body Hamiltonians. Generic tools like neural networks are extremely powerful, but their parameters are not necessarily physically motivated.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-04 Agnes Valenti , Eliska Greplova , Netanel H. Lindner , Sebastian D. Huber

Deep neural networks have been extremely successful as highly accurate wave function ans\"atze for variational Monte Carlo calculations of molecular ground states. We present an extension of one such ansatz, FermiNet, to calculations of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 G. Cassella , H. Sutterud , S. Azadi , N. D. Drummond , D. Pfau , J. S. Spencer , W. M. C. Foulkes

We introduce an unsupervised machine-learning framework that discovers optimally compressed representations of quantum many-body ground states. Using an autoencoder neural network architecture on data from $L$-site Fermi-Hubbard models, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Felix Frohnert , Emiel Koridon , Stefano Polla

Owing to their great expressivity and versatility, neural networks have gained attention for simulating large two-dimensional quantum many-body systems. However, their expressivity comes with the cost of a challenging optimization due to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-03-26 Hannah Lange , Guillaume Bornet , Gabriel Emperauger , Cheng Chen , Thierry Lahaye , Stefan Kienle , Antoine Browaeys , Annabelle Bohrdt

The famous, yet unsolved, Fermi-Hubbard model for strongly-correlated electronic systems is a prominent target for quantum computers. However, accurately representing the Fermi-Hubbard ground state for large instances may be beyond the…

We present a quantum Monte Carlo algorithm for the simulation of general quantum and classical many-body models within a single unifying framework. The algorithm builds on a power series expansion of the quantum partition function in its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-05 Lalit Gupta , Tameem Albash , Itay Hen

We propose a new ansatz for the ground-state wave function of quantum many-body systems on a lattice. The key idea is to cover the lattice with plaquettes and obtain a state whose configurational weights can be optimized by means of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Fabio Mezzacapo , Norbert Schuch , Massimo Boninsegni , J. Ignacio Cirac

Recently, the use of neural quantum states for describing the ground state of many- and few-body problems has been gaining popularity because of their high expressivity and ability to handle intractably large Hilbert spaces. In particular,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-11-09 Vladimir Vargas-Calderón , Herbert Vinck-Posada , Fabio A. González

The projective quantum Monte Carlo (PQMC) algorithms are among the most powerful computational techniques to simulate the ground state properties of quantum many-body systems. However, they are efficient only if a sufficiently accurate…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-04 S. Pilati , E. M. Inack , P. Pieri

We present a variational Monte Carlo algorithm for estimating the lowest excited states of a quantum system which is a natural generalization of the estimation of ground states. The method has no free parameters and requires no explicit…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 David Pfau , Simon Axelrod , Halvard Sutterud , Ingrid von Glehn , James S. Spencer

In electronic structure theory, variational methods offer a valuable paradigm for approximating electronic ground states. However, for historical reasons, this principle is mostly restricted to model chemistries in pre-defined fixed basis…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Fabian Langkabel , Stefan Knecht , Jakob S. Kottmann

Despite the successful implementations of physics-informed neural networks in different scientific domains, it has been shown that for complex nonlinear systems, achieving an accurate model requires extensive hyperparameter tuning, network…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Milad Ramezankhani , Amir Nazemi , Apurva Narayan , Heinz Voggenreiter , Mehrtash Harandi , Rudolf Seethaler , Abbas S. Milani

Excited states play a central role in determining the physical properties of quantum matter, yet their accurate computation in many-body systems remains a formidable challenge for numerical methods. While neural quantum states have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Douglas Hendry , Alessandro Sinibaldi , Giuseppe Carleo

Large language models, like transformers, have recently demonstrated immense powers in text and image generation. This success is driven by the ability to capture long-range correlations between elements in a sequence. The same feature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 Kyle Sprague , Stefanie Czischek

Neural network quantum state (NNQS) has emerged as a promising candidate for quantum many-body problems, but its practical applications are often hindered by the high cost of sampling and local energy calculation. We develop a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-02 Yangjun Wu , Chu Guo , Yi Fan , Pengyu Zhou , Honghui Shang

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…

Finding the ground state of a quantum mechanical system can be formulated as an optimal control problem. In this formulation, the drift of the optimally controlled process is chosen to match the distribution of paths in the Feynman--Kac…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-17 Ariel Barr , Willem Gispen , Austen Lamacraft

We present a novel, non-parametric form for compactly representing entangled many-body quantum states, which we call a `Gaussian Process State'. In contrast to other approaches, we define this state explicitly in terms of a configurational…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-11 Aldo Glielmo , Yannic Rath , Gabor Csanyi , Alessandro De Vita , George H. Booth