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28 claims from 18 papers

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

    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.”

15. 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.”

16. 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.”

17. 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…”

18. 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.”