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arXiv:2307.11091 · Physical Review A

Data-driven criteria for quantum correlations

Mateusz Krawczyk, Jarosław Pawłowski, Maciej M. Maśka, Katarzyna Roszak

Published Feb 5, 2024• 10 citations
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Abstract

We build a machine learning model to detect correlations in a three-qubit system using a neural network trained in an unsupervised manner on randomly generated states. The network is forced to recognize separable states, and correlated states are detected as anomalies. Quite surprisingly, we find that the proposed detector performs much better at distinguishing a weaker form of quantum correlations, namely, the quantum discord, than entanglement. In fact, it has a tendency to grossly overestimate the set of entangled states even at the optimal threshold for entanglement detection, while it underestimates the set of discordant states to a much lesser extent. In order to illustrate the nature of states classified as quantum correlated, we construct a diagram containing various types of states---entangled, as well as separable, both discordant and nondiscordant. We find that the near-zero value of the recognition loss reproduces the shape of the nondiscordant separable states with high accuracy, especially considering the nontrivial shape of this set on the diagram. The network architecture is designed carefully: it preserves separability, and its output is equivariant with respect to qubit permutations. We show that the choice of architecture is important to get the highest detection accuracy, much better than for a baseline model that just utilizes a partial trace operation.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.109.022405

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