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

Kenny Choo, Giuseppe Carleo, Nicolas Regnault, and Titus Neupert
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 167204 – Published 19 October 2018
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Abstract

Artificial neural networks have been recently introduced as a general ansatz to represent many-body wave functions. In conjunction with variational Monte Carlo calculations, this ansatz has been applied to find Hamiltonian ground states and their energies. Here, we provide extensions of this method to study excited states, a central task in several many-body quantum calculations. First, we give a prescription that allows us to target eigenstates of a (nonlocal) symmetry of the Hamiltonian. Second, we give an algorithm to compute low-lying excited states without symmetries. We demonstrate our approach with both restricted Boltzmann machines and feed-forward neural networks. Results are shown for the one-dimensional spin-1/2 Heisenberg model, and for the one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model. When comparing to exact results, we obtain good agreement for a large range of excited-states energies. Interestingly, we find that deep networks typically outperform shallow architectures for high-energy states.

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  • Received 16 July 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.167204

© 2018 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Statistical Physics & ThermodynamicsCondensed Matter, Materials & Applied PhysicsQuantum Information, Science & TechnologyNetworks

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Kenny Choo1, Giuseppe Carleo2, Nicolas Regnault3, and Titus Neupert1

  • 1Department of Physics, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2Center for Computational Quantum Physics, Flatiron Institute, 162 5th Avenue, New York, New York 10010, USA
  • 3Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, Ecole normale supérieure, PSL University, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, CNRS, 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris France

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Vol. 121, Iss. 16 — 19 October 2018

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