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45 claims from 26 papers, showing 1–20 of 26

1. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

   Topological Entanglement Entropy

   Kitaev and Preskill · Physical Review Letters · 2006

   The paper characterises ground-state entanglement in a gapped, topologically ordered 2D medium, showing the entropy of a disk contains a universal constant, and derives a formula for it using topological quantum field theory.

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   1. UncheckedIn a gapped topologically ordered 2D system, the entanglement entropy of a disk has a non-universal boundary term and a universal constant offset, -γ.“The coefficient α, arising from short wavelength modes localized near the boundary, is nonuniversal and ultraviolet divergent, but -γis a universal additive constant characterizing a global feature of the entanglement in the ground state.”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

   Predicting many properties of a quantum system from very few measurements

   Huang, Kueng and Preskill · Nature Physics · 2020

   The paper presents classical shadows, a way to build an approximate classical description of a quantum state from very few measurements, and uses it to predict many properties, supported by numerical experiments.

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   1. Unchecked“The number of measurements is independent of the system size, and saturates information-theoretic lower bounds.”
   2. UncheckedWith the classical shadow method, the properties of a quantum state to be predicted can be chosen after the measurements have already been made.“Moreover, target properties to predict can be selected after the measurements are completed.”

3. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

   Solving the quantum many-body problem with artificial neural networks

   Carleo and Troyer · Science · 2017

   The paper represents quantum many-body states with artificial neural networks and shows they can accurately capture equilibrium and dynamical properties of prototypical interacting spin models in one and two dimensions.

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   1. UncheckedA reinforcement-learning scheme is shown that can find the ground state, or describe the unitary time evolution, of complex interacting quantum systems.“A reinforcement-learning scheme is then demonstrated, capable of either finding the ground-state or describing the unitary time evolution of complex interacting quantum systems.”
   2. Unchecked“We show that this approach achieves very high accuracy in the description of equilibrium and dynamical properties of prototypical interacting spins models in both one and two dimensions, thus offering a new powerful tool to solve the quantum many-body proble…

4. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

   Machine learning phases of matter

   Carrasquilla and Melko · Nature Physics · 2017

   The authors show that neural networks trained on Monte Carlo samples can identify phases and phase transitions in condensed matter systems without knowing the Hamiltonian or the locality of interactions.

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   1. UncheckedNeural networks can detect Coulomb phases, and convolutional versions can detect topological phases that have no conventional order parameter.“In addition, they can detect highly non-trivial states such as Coulomb phases, and if modified to a convolutional neural network, topological phases with no conventional order parameter.”

5. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

   Time-dependent density-matrix renormalization-group using adaptive effective Hilbert spaces

   Daley, Kollath, Schollwöck and Vidal · Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment · 2004

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   1. Unchecked“The TEBD algorithm being based on updating a matrix product state in time, it is very accessible to the DMRG community and it can be enhanced by using well-known DMRG techniques, for instance in the event of good quantum numbers.”

6. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

   Neural-network quantum state tomography

   Torlai, Mazzola, Carrasquilla, Troyer, Melko and Carleo · Nature Physics · 2018

   The paper presents a machine learning approach to quantum-state tomography that reconstructs highly entangled many-body states, including quantities such as entanglement entropy, from simple measurements.

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   1. UncheckedMachine learning methods can be used efficiently to reconstruct highly entangled quantum states, in both one and two dimensions, as the paper shows.“Here we show that machine learning techniques can be efficiently used for QST of highly-entangled states, in both one and two dimensions.”

7. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

   Learning phase transitions by confusion

   van Nieuwenburg, Liu and Huber · Nature Physics · 2017

   The authors propose finding phase transitions by training a neural network on deliberately mislabelled data, and demonstrate it on three different physical systems.

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   1. UncheckedThe authors say their neural-network method for locating phase transitions needs no order parameters or knowledge of the transition's specifics.“Our method does not depend on order parameters, knowledge of the topological content of the phases, or any other specifics of the transition at hand.”

8. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

   Quantum Entanglement in Neural Network States

   Deng, Li and Das Sarma · Physical Review X · 2017

   The paper studies how much quantum entanglement neural-network states, mainly restricted Boltzmann machines, can carry, and shows that it depends on connection range and on the choice of weights.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper proves that entanglement in short-range restricted Boltzmann machine states follows an area law, in any dimension and for any way of splitting the system.“We prove that the entanglement of all short-range RBM states satisfies an area law for arbitrary dimensions and bipartition geometry.”
   2. Unchecked“For long-range RBM states we show by using an exact construction that such states could exhibit volume-law entanglement, implying a notable capability of RBM in representing efficiently quantum states with massive entanglement.”
   3. Unchecked“We find that their averaged entanglement entropy obeys volume-law scaling and meantime strongly deviates from the Page-entropy of the completely random pure states.”

9. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

   Machine learning quantum phases of matter beyond the fermion sign problem

   Broecker, Carrasquilla, Melko and Trebst · Scientific Reports · 2017

   The paper uses quantum Monte Carlo simulations with convolutional neural networks to tell fermionic quantum phases apart, including in systems with a severe fermion sign problem.

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   1. UncheckedConvolutional neural networks can be tuned for many-fermion quantum systems so they identify and locate quantum phase transitions.“Here we demonstrate that convolutional neural networks (CNN) can be optimized for quantum many-fermion systems such that they correctly identify and locate quantum phase transitions in such systems.”

10. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

    Restricted Boltzmann machine learning for solving strongly correlated quantum systems

    Nomura, Darmawan, Yamaji and Imada · Physical review. B./Physical review. B · 2017

    The authors combine a restricted Boltzmann machine with variational Monte Carlo to build accurate ground-state wave functions for strongly interacting quantum spin and fermion models on lattices.

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    1. UncheckedCombining a restricted Boltzmann machine with variational Monte Carlo lets the machine learning scheme be applied to interacting fermionic systems.“The combination allows an application of the machine learning scheme to interacting fermionic systems.”
    2. Unchecked“The combined method substantially improves the accuracy beyond that ever achieved by each method separately, in the Heisenberg as well as Hubbard models on square lattices, thus proving its power as a highly accurate quantum many-body solver.”

11. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

    Machine learning topological states

    Deng, Li and Das Sarma · Physical review. B./Physical review. B · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“For the 2D toric-code model, we find that the proposed short-range neural networks can describe the excited states with abelain anyons and their nontrivial mutual statistics as well.”
    2. Unchecked“In addition, by using reinforcement learning we show that neural networks are capable of finding the topological ground states of non-integrable Hamiltonians with strong interactions and studying their topological phase transitions.”

12. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

    Symmetries and Many-Body Excitations with Neural-Network Quantum States

    Choo, Carleo, Regnault and Neupert · Physical Review Letters · 2018

    The paper extends neural-network wave-function methods from ground states to excited states, using symmetry targeting and an algorithm for low-lying states, tested on two one-dimensional models.

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    1. UncheckedIn this study, deep neural networks typically gave better results than shallow ones when representing high-energy quantum states.“Interestingly, we also find that deep networks typically outperform shallow architectures for high-energy states.”

13. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

    Provably efficient machine learning for quantum many-body problems

    Huang, Kueng, Torlai, Albert and Preskill · Science · 2022

    The paper proves that classical machine learning can efficiently predict ground state properties of gapped quantum systems and classify quantum phases, supported by numerical experiments on several model systems.

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    1. UncheckedUnder widely accepted complexity assumptions, classical algorithms that do not learn from data cannot match the guarantee the paper proves for classical machine learning.“In contrast, under widely accepted complexity theory assumptions, classical algorithms that do not learn from data cannot achieve the same guarantee.”
    2. Unchecked“In this work, we prove that classical ML algorithms can efficiently predict ground state properties of gapped Hamiltonians in finite spatial dimensions, after learning from data obtained by measuring other Hamiltonians in the same quantum phase of matter.”

14. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

    Neural-Network Quantum States, String-Bond States, and Chiral Topological States

    I., N., M., I. and Cirac · Max Planck Digital Library · 2018

    The paper links neural-network quantum states (Restricted Boltzmann Machines) to tensor-network states, and shows they can describe a lattice Fractional Quantum Hall state and approximate a chiral spin liquid.

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    1. UncheckedShort-range Restricted Boltzmann Machines are Entangled Plaquette States; fully connected ones are String-Bond States with nonlocal geometry and low bond dimension.“In particular we demonstrate that short-range Restricted Boltzmann Machines are Entangled Plaquette States, while fully connected Restricted Boltzmann Machines are String-Bond States with a nonlocal geometry and low bond dimension.”
    2. UncheckedNeural-network quantum states and their string-bond extension can represent a lattice fractional quantum Hall state exactly, unlike traditional tensor networks.“While it remains a challenge to describe states with chiral topological order using traditional Tensor Networks, we show that Neural-Network Quantum States and their String-Bond States extension can describe a lattice Fractional Quantum Hall state exactly.”

15. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

    Neural-Network Quantum States, String-Bond States, and Chiral Topological States

    Glasser, Pancotti, August, Rodriguez and Cirac · Physical Review X · 2018

    The paper links neural-network quantum states to tensor-network states, shows they can be combined, and tests them on a lattice Fractional Quantum Hall state and a chiral spin liquid.

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    1. UncheckedThe paper shows short-range Restricted Boltzmann Machines are Entangled Plaquette States, and fully connected ones are String-Bond States with low bond dimension.“In particular we demonstrate that short-range Restricted Boltzmann Machines are Entangled Plaquette States, while fully connected Restricted Boltzmann Machines are String-Bond States with a nonlocal geometry and low bond dimension.”
    2. UncheckedNeural-network quantum states and their string-bond extension can describe a lattice fractional quantum Hall state exactly, which traditional tensor networks find hard.“While it remains a challenge to describe states with chiral topological order using traditional Tensor Networks, we show that Neural-Network Quantum States and their String-Bond States extension can describe a lattice Fractional Quantum Hall state exactly.”
    3. UncheckedNumerical results suggest neural-network quantum states approximate a chiral spin liquid more accurately than entangled plaquette states and local string-bond states.“In addition, we provide numerical evidence that Neural-Network Quantum States can approximate a chiral spin liquid with better accuracy than Entangled Plaquette States and local String-Bond States.”

16. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

    Quantum phases of Rydberg atoms on a kagome lattice

    Samajdar, Ho, Pichler, Lukin and Sachdev · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2021

    The paper studies zero-temperature phases of Rydberg atoms on a kagome lattice, finding many solid phases and a novel dense regime that may contain topologically ordered phases.

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    1. UncheckedThe authors argue that a dense-excitation regime of Rydberg atoms on a kagome lattice could host one or more phases with topological order.“From a mapping to the triangular lattice quantum dimer model, and theories of quantum phase transitions out of the proximate solid phases, we argue that this regime could contain one or more phases with topological order.”

17. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

    Constructing neural stationary states for open quantum many-body systems

    Yoshioka and Hamazaki · Physical review. B./Physical review. B · 2019

    The paper proposes a neural-network variational method, using restricted Boltzmann machines, to simulate stationary states of open quantum many-body systems, and shows it works on several spin models.

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    1. UncheckedRecasting the search for a stationary state as finding a zero-energy ground state lets standard variational Monte Carlo be used to optimise it.“The mapping of the stationary-state search problem into finding a zero-energy ground state of an appropriate Hermitian operator allows us to apply the conventional variational Monte Carlo method for the optimization.”

18. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

    Backflow Transformations via Neural Networks for Quantum Many-Body Wave Functions

    Di Luo and Clark · Physical Review Letters · 2019

    The paper proposes neural network backflow, a new class of wave functions that uses a neural network to transform mean-field orbitals, and tests it on a Hubbard model.

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    1. UncheckedOn a Hubbard model at intermediate doping, neural network backflow reduces relative error, restores symmetries and lowers double-occupancy density.“We benchmark the NNB on a Hubbard model at intermediate doping finding that it significantly decreases the relative error, restores the symmetry of both observables and single-particle orbitals, and decreases the double-occupancy density.”

19. 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.”

20. 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.”