arXiv:2211.11786 · Physical Review Letters

Model-Independent Learning of Quantum Phases of Matter with Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks

Yu-Jie Liu, Adam Smith, Michael Knap, Frank Pollmann

Published Jun 2, 2023• 33 citations

Abstract

Quantum convolutional neural networks (QCNNs) have been introduced as classifiers for gapped quantum phases of matter. Here, we propose a model-independent protocol for training QCNNs to discover order parameters that are unchanged under phase-preserving perturbations. We initiate the training sequence with the fixed-point wave functions of the quantum phase and add translation-invariant noise that respects the symmetries of the system to mask the fixed-point structure on short length scales. We illustrate this approach by training the QCNN on phases protected by time-reversal symmetry in one dimension, and test it on several time-reversal symmetric models exhibiting trivial, symmetry-breaking, and symmetry-protected topological order. The QCNN discovers a set of order parameters that identifies all three phases and accurately predicts the location of the phase boundary. The proposed protocol paves the way toward hardware-efficient training of quantum phase classifiers on a programmable quantum processor.

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.220603

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