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arXiv:1709.05468 · Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Machine Learning Technique to Find Quantum Many-Body Ground States of Bosons on a Lattice

Hiroki Saito, Masaya Kato

Published Dec 7, 2017• 108 citations
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Abstract

We develop a variational method to obtain many-body ground states of the Bose-Hubbard model using feedforward artificial neural networks. A fully-connected network with a single hidden layer works better than a fully-connected network with multiple hidden layers, and a multi-layer convolutional network is more efficient than a fully-connected network. AdaGrad and Adam are optimization methods that work well. Moreover, we show that many-body ground states with different numbers of atoms can be generated by a single network.

DOI
10.7566/jpsj.87.014001

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