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arXiv:2007.14809 · Physical review. B./Physical review. B

Machine learning phases and criticalities without using real data for training

D.-R. Tan, Fu-Jiun Jiang

Published Dec 28, 2020• 12 citations
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Abstract

We study the phase transitions of three-dimensional (3D) classical $O(3)$ model and two-dimensional (2D) classical XY model, as well as both the quantum phase transitions of 2D and 3D dimerized spin-1/2 antiferromagnets, using the technique of supervised neural network (NN). Moreover, unlike the conventional approaches commonly used in the literature, the training sets employed in our investigation are neither the theoretical nor the real configurations of the considered systems. Remarkably, with such an unconventional set up of the training stage in conjunction with some semiexperimental finite-size scaling formulas, the associated critical points determined by the NN method agree well with the established results in the literature. The outcomes obtained here imply that certain unconventional training strategies, like the one used in this study, are not only cost-effective in computation but are also applicable for a wide range of physical systems.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.102.224434

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Abstract The critical phenomena of the 2D antiferromagnetic qqq-state Potts model on the square lattice with q=2,3,4q=2,3,4q=2,3,4 are investigated using the techniques of neural networks (NNs). In particular, an unconventional supervised NN which is trained using no information about the physics of the considered systems is employed. In addition, conventional unsupervised autoencoders (AECs) are used in our study as well. Remarkably, whereas the conventional AECs either fail or only work partially to uncover the critical phenomena of the systems associated with q=3q=3q=3 and q=4q=4q=4 investigated here, our unconventional supervised NN correctly identifies the critical behaviors of all three considered antiferromagnetic qqq-state Potts models. The results obtained in this study suggest convincingly that the applicability of our unconventional supervised NN is broader than one anticipates. In particular, when a new system is studied with our NN, it is likely that it is not necessary to conduct any training, and one only needs to examine whether an appropriate reduced representation of the original raw configurations exists, so that the same already trained NN can be employed to explore the related phase transition efficiently.
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