Notes on Solving the quantum many-body quantum problem with artificial neural networks

Sciencemag.org
Giuseppe Carleo and Matthias Troyer

1. The wave function of a quantum many body system consists of infinitely many
information because of which it is very difficult to determine.

2. Variational learning of a quantum system by using artificial neural networks reduces the
complexity of finding a specific physical observable of a many body system.

3. The accuracy, however, depends on the number of hidden layers, number o nodes in
each hidden layer, the type of neural network used (and so on)

4. A reinforcement-learning technique demonstrated in the article is capable of both

finding the ground state and describing the unitary time evolution of complex interacting
quantum system

5. The wave function, a fundamental object in quantum mechanics, is a monolithic

mathematical quantity that contains all the information about the quantum system. It
allows us to get the expectation value of an observable by taking a projection. In
principle, an exponential amount of data is required to fully encode a generic many-body
quantum state. However, wave functions representing many physical many-body
systems can be characterized by an amount of information much less than that required
to fully encode the wave function

6. By using the stochastic methods, or compact representations, many of the many-body

problems can be solved. However, some of the fundamental problems of high
dimensional systems and the exact ground-state properties of strongly interacting
fermions have not yet been solved. For these problems, artificial neural network can be
very useful.