arXiv:2409.00398 · Physical review. D/Physical review. D.

Variational Monte Carlo with neural network quantum states for a Yang-Mills matrix model

Norbert Bodendorfer, Onur Oktay, Vaibhav Gautam, Masanori Hanada, Enrico Rinaldi

Published Jul 14, 2025• 4 citations

Abstract

We apply the variational Monte Carlo method based on neural network quantum states, using a neural autoregressive flow architecture as our ansatz, to determine the ground state wave function of the bosonic SU ( N ) Yang-Mills-type two-matrix model at strong coupling. Previous literature hinted at the inaccuracy of such an approach at strong coupling. In this work, the accuracy of the results is tested using lattice Monte Carlo simulations: we benchmark the expectation value of the energy of the ground state for system sizes N that are beyond brute-force exact diagonalization methods. We observe that the variational method with neural network states reproduces the right ground state energy when the width of the network employed in this work is sufficiently large. We confirm that the correct result is obtained for N = 2 and 3, while obtaining a precise value for N = 4 requires more resources than the amount available for this work.

DOI: 10.1103/t8m6-zhrm

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