Recent rapid development in the neural network architecture for machine learning and AI has been inspiring a new tool for fundamental physics research that is not even data-driven. In this article, I review one of such examples, called neural-network quantum states. Basic concepts, some of promising applications, and recent progresses for performance and wider applicability are briefly introduced, highlighting its potential as a highly competitive tool for quantum many-body simulations.
Recent rapid development in the neural network architecture for machine learning and AI has been inspiring a new tool for fundamental physics research that is not even data-driven. In this article, I review one of such examples, called neural-network quantum states. Basic concepts, some of promising applications, and recent progresses for performance and wider applicability are briefly introduced, highlighting its potential as a highly competitive tool for quantum many-body simulations.
Abstract One of the main challenges of quantum many‐body physics is the exponential growth in the dimensionality of the Hilbert space with system size. This growth makes solving the Schrödinger equation of the system extremely difficult. Nonetheless, many physical systems have a simplified internal structure that typically makes the parameters needed to characterize their ground states exponentially smaller. Many numerical methods then become available to capture the physics of the system. Among modern numerical techniques, neural networks, which show great power in approximating functions and extracting features of big data, are now attracting much interest. In this work, the progress in using artificial neural networks to build quantum many‐body states is reviewed. The Boltzmann machine representation is taken as a prototypical example to illustrate various aspects of the neural network states. The classical neural networks are also briefly reviewed, and it is illustrated how to use neural networks to represent quantum states and density operators. Some physical properties of the neural network states are discussed. For applications, the progress in many‐body calculations based on neural network states, the neural network state approach to tomography, and the classical simulation of quantum computing based on Boltzmann machine states are briefly reviewed.
Artificial intelligence has been transformed by deep neural networks, yet the search for new learning architectures continues. Quantum machine learning offers one such direction, and hybrid quantum neural networks, which combine classical neural-network components with quantum information processing units, have emerged as a practical framework for near-term quantum technologies. However, the rapid development of the field across diverse architectures, benchmarks and hardware assumptions makes it difficult to assess the utility of various proposals, identify where genuine advantages may arise, and determine how practitioners can use these models. While recent benchmarks caution that such gains have not yet been demonstrated at scale, theoretical work has identified tasks on which quantum models hold provable advantages, and hybrid approaches have delivered promising results on practical problems using deliberately compact quantum components and substantially fewer trainable parameters. Here, we review hybrid quantum neural networks for the machine-learning and quantum-machine-learning communities. We summarize their main theoretical and methodological foundations, survey some of the most promising architectures developed so far, and examine their implementation challenges and reported performance. By consolidating these perspectives, this review provides a structured view of the state of the field and helps identify promising paths for future research and application-driven development.
One of the main challenges of quantum many-body physics is that the dimensionality of the Hilbert space grows exponentially with the system size, which makes it extremely difficult to solve the Schrodinger equations of the system. But typically, many physical systems have a simplified internal structure which makes the parameters needed to characterize their ground states exponentially smaller. This makes many numerical methods possible in capture the physics of the system. Among these modern numerical techniques, neural networks, which show great power in approximating functions and extracting features of the big data, are now attracting many interests. Neural network representation of quantum many-body states shows great potential in solving some traditionally difficult quantum problems involving large number of freedoms. In this work, we briefly review the progress of using the artificial neural network to build quantum many-body ansatz states. We take Boltzmann machine representation as a prototypical example to illustrate various aspects of neural network representation of quantum many-body states. We first briefly review the classical neural networks, then we illustrate how to use neural networks to represent quantum states and density operators. Some physical properties of the neural network states, including entanglement features, representational power, and the relation with tensor network states, are discussed. For applications, we briefly review the progress of many-body calculating based on neural network states, neural network state approach to tomography, and also the classical simulation of quantum computing based on Boltzmann machine states. At the end of the work, some outlooks and open problems are given.
Abstract Neural networks are computing models that have been leading progress in Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications. In parallel, the first small-scale quantum computing devices have become available in recent years, paving the way for the development of a new paradigm in information processing. Here we give an overview of the most recent proposals aimed at bringing together these ongoing revolutions, and particularly at implementing the key functionalities of artificial neural networks on quantum architectures. We highlight the exciting perspectives in this context, and discuss the potential role of near-term quantum hardware in the quest for quantum machine learning advantage.
Over the past few years, machine learning has emerged as a powerful computational tool to tackle complex problems in a broad range of scientific disciplines.In particular, artificial neural networks have been successfully used to mitigate the exponential complexity often encountered in quantum many-body physics, the study of properties of quantum systems built from a large number of interacting particles.In this article, we review some applications of neural networks in condensed matter physics and quantum information, with particular emphasis on hands-on tutorials serving as a quick start for a newcomer to the field.The prerequisites of this tutorial are basic probability theory and calculus, linear algebra, basic notions of neural networks, statistical physics, and quantum mechanics.The reader is introduced to supervised machine learning with convolutional neural networks to learn a phase transition, unsupervised learning with restricted Boltzmann machines to perform quantum tomography, and the variational Monte Carlo method with recurrent neural networks for approximating the ground state of a many-body Hamiltonian.For each algorithm, we briefly review the key ingredients and their corresponding neuralnetwork implementation, and show numerical experiments for a system of interacting Rydberg atoms in two dimensions.
The so-called contemporary AI revolution has reached every corner of the social, human and natural sciences -- physics included. In the context of quantum many-body physics, its intersection with machine learning has configured a high-impact interdisciplinary field of study; with the arise of recent seminal contributions that have derived in a large number of publications. One particular research line of such field of study is the so-called Neural-Network Quantum States, a powerful variational computational methodology for the solution of quantum many-body systems that has proven to compete with well-established, traditional formalisms. Here, a systematic review of literature regarding Neural-Network Quantum States is presented.