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47 claims from 28 papers, showing 21–28 of 28

1. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

   Generalization properties of neural network approximations to frustrated magnet ground states

   Westerhout, Astrakhantsev, Tikhonov, Katsnelson and Bagrov · Nature Communications · 2020

   The authors trained neural networks to approximate ground states of moderately sized frustrated magnet models and examined what limits their performance, finding generalisation, not expressibility, to be the main problem.

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   1. UncheckedIn this study, neural networks trained on a few samples of a magnet's ground state generalise much worse once frustration in the model is increased.“We notice that generalization quality, i.e. the ability to learn from a limited number of samples and correctly approximate the target state on the rest of the space, drops abruptly when frustration is increased.”
   2. Unchecked“We also show that learning the sign structure is considerably more difficult than learning amplitudes.”
   3. UncheckedThe authors conclude that, for neural quantum states to simulate realistic models, the main open problem is generalization rather than expressibility.“Finally, we conclude that the main issue to be addressed at this stage, in order to use the method of NQS for simulating realistic models, is that of generalization rather than expressibility.”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

   Machine learning Z2 quantum spin liquids with quasiparticle statistics

   Zhang, Melko and Kim · Physical review. B./Physical review. B · 2017

   The authors build a machine-learning input sensitive to quasiparticle statistics and use it to map the phase diagram of a Z2 quantum spin liquid, citing advantages in speed and storage.

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   1. UncheckedA simple feed-forward neural network was used to find the boundary between topological and trivial phases of a Z2 quantum spin liquid model.“We successfully obtain the quantum phase boundary between the topological and trivial phases using a simple feed-forward neural network.”
   2. UncheckedThe authors report that their machine-learning method for mapping topological phase diagrams has advantages in speed and storage.“Furthermore, we demonstrate advantages of our approach for the evaluation of phase diagrams relating to speed and storage.”

3. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

   Neural tensor contractions and the expressive power of deep neural quantum states

   Sharir, Shashua and Carleo · Physical review. B./Physical review. B · 2022

   The paper links tensor networks to deep feed-forward neural networks by building layers that perform tensor contractions, and draws conclusions about how expressive neural quantum states are.

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   1. UncheckedNeural-network quantum states can represent anything practically usable variational tensor networks can, and possibly more, according to the paper.“In the context of many-body quantum states, this result establishes that neural-network states have strictly the same or higher expressive power than practically usable variational tensor networks.”
   2. UncheckedThe paper says some quantum states cannot be efficiently written as matrix product states or PEPS but can be efficiently written as neural network states.“The opposite instead does not hold true, and our results imply that there exist quantum states that are not efficiently expressible in terms of matrix product states or PEPS, but that are instead efficiently expressible with neural network states.”

4. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

   Two-Component Structure in the Entanglement Spectrum of Highly Excited States

   Yang, Chamon, Hamma and Mucciolo · Physical Review Letters · 2015

   The paper studies entanglement spectra of highly excited states in two models with a many-body localization transition, finding a universal random-matrix part and a model-dependent part.

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   1. UncheckedPart of the entanglement spectrum of highly excited states is model dependent, showing they differ from truly random states even when thermalization holds.“The non-universal part manifests the deviation of the highly excited eigenstate from a true random state even in the thermalized phase where the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis holds.”
   2. Unchecked“The fraction of the spectrum containing the universal part decreases as one approaches the critical point and vanishes in the localized phase in the thermodynamic limit.”

5. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

   Quenches near Ising quantum criticality as a challenge for artificial neural networks

   Czischek, Gärttner and Gasenzer · Physical review. B./Physical review. B · 2018

   The authors used an artificial neural network to represent quantum Ising spin chain states after a quench near the critical point, and compared its correlations with exact, tDMRG and semi-classical results.

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   1. Unchecked“While the semi-classical approach excells mainly at short times and for small transverse fields, the neural-network representation provides accurate results for a much wider range of parameters.”
   2. UncheckedWhere long-range spin correlations build up at late times, the neural network matches exact results qualitatively, but converges slowly as hidden neurons are added.“Where long-range spin-spin correlations build up in the long-time dynamics we find qualitative agreement with exact results while quantitative deviations are of similar size as for the semi-classically predicted correlations, and slow convergence is observed when increasing the number of hidden neu…”

6. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

   Discovering Quantum Phase Transitions with Fermionic Neural Networks

   Cassella, Sutterud, Azadi et al. · Physical Review Letters · 2023

   The authors extend the FermiNet neural-network wave function to periodic systems and use it on the homogeneous electron gas, where it represents both the Fermi liquid and the Wigner crystal.

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   1. UncheckedA neural network given no hint of a phase transition settled on a uniform electron state at high density and a crystal at low density.“The network is given no \emph{a priori} knowledge that a phase transition exists, but converges on the translationally invariant ground state at high density and spontaneously breaks the symmetry to produce the crystalline ground state at low density.”

7. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

   Unifying neural-network quantum states and correlator product states via tensor networks

   Clark · Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical · 2018

   The paper uses tensor networks to link neural-network quantum states to correlator product states, giving exact representations of several well-known states and suggesting extensions to variational Monte Carlo.

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   1. UncheckedUsing tensor-network diagrams, the paper shows that neural-network quantum states are a special kind of correlator product state with new properties.“By employing the formalism of tensor networks we show that NQS are a special form of CPS with novel properties.”
   2. UncheckedNeural-network quantum states can be seen as correlator product states made of system-wide GHZ-form correlators, linked to a canonical polyadic tensor decomposition.“Namely, that NQS are CPS built from extensively sized GHZ-form correlators, which are related to a canonical polyadic decomposition of a tensor, making them uniquely unbiased geometrically.”
   3. UncheckedBecause neural-network quantum states are a form of correlator product state, they can represent several well-known quantum states exactly, as the paper states.“Another immediate implication of the equivalence to CPS is that we are able to formulate exact NQS representations for a wide range of paradigmatic states, including superposition of weighed-graph states, the Laughlin state, toric code states, and the resonating valence bond state.”

8. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

   Statistical mechanics of disordered quantum optimization

   Laumann · 2010

   A thesis extending the statistical mechanics of hard, disordered optimisation problems to the quantum setting, asking what makes such problems hard even for quantum computers.

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   1. UncheckedThe thesis introduces random quantum satisfiability (QSAT) and maps out the broad features of its phase diagram, including a new kind of entanglement transition.“In particular, we introduce the study of random quantum satisfiability (QSAT) and identify the coarse aspects of its phase diagram, including a new form of entanglement transition.”
   2. UncheckedUsing the cavity method, the thesis extracts Griffiths-McCoy singularities in a diluted classical ferromagnet and observes no Goldstone bosons on the Bethe lattice.“We further apply the cavity method to extract Griffiths-McCoy singularities in a diluted (classical) ferromagnet and finally observe that there are no Goldstone bosons on the Bethe lattice.”