Abstract We demonstrate that system-agnostic physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) can efficiently learn the dynamical solution of quantum master equations, as compared to problem-specific numerical solvers, with respect to accuracy, stability of training convergence, robustness towards bath parameters or initial conditions, and equivalent convergence times for the non-Markovian evolution of two-level quantum systems. We study cases of quantum dot systems driven by external electromagnetic fields and coupled to an acoustic phonon environment, and analyze two problem setups, the evolution of Bloch vectorized coupled differential equations obtained from a Lindblad master equation and the evolution of a non-Markovian master equation obtained from the Nakajima–Zwanzig formulation. We implement a fully connected PINN architecture to solve the two problems. We also use the same methodology to solve the inverse problem of estimation of bath parameters in a supervised fashion, but with a very limited number of noisy samples.
Abstract We demonstrate that system-agnostic physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) can efficiently learn the dynamical solution of quantum master equations, as compared to problem-specific numerical solvers, with respect to accuracy, stability of training convergence, robustness towards bath parameters or initial conditions, and equivalent convergence times for the non-Markovian evolution of two-level quantum systems. We study cases of quantum dot systems driven by external electromagnetic fields and coupled to an acoustic phonon environment, and analyze two problem setups, the evolution of Bloch vectorized coupled differential equations obtained from a Lindblad master equation and the evolution of a non-Markovian master equation obtained from the Nakajima–Zwanzig formulation. We implement a fully connected PINN architecture to solve the two problems. We also use the same methodology to solve the inverse problem of estimation of bath parameters in a supervised fashion, but with a very limited number of noisy samples.
Characterizing the environmental interactions of quantum systems is a critical bottleneck in the development of robust quantum technologies. Traditional tomographic methods are often data-intensive and struggle with scalability. In this work, we introduce a novel framework for performing Lindblad tomography using Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs). By embedding the Lindblad master equation directly into the neural network's loss function, our approach simultaneously learns the quantum state's evolution and infers the underlying dissipation parameters from sparse, time-series measurement data. Our results show that PINNs can reconstruct both the system dynamics and the functional form of unknown noise parameters, presenting a sample-efficient and scalable solution for quantum device characterization. Ultimately, our method produces a fully-differentiable digital twin of a noisy quantum system by learning its governing master equation.
Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) provide a pathway to reunify the simulation and control of quantum systems, in which these two tasks are typically decoupled in traditional strategies. However, most work remains confined to Markovian environments. When applied to non-Markovian systems, standard PINN architectures fail to converge reliably due to multi-objective optimization conflicts arising from the coupled differential equations. To address this fundamental limitation, we extend our previously proposed forked PINN (FPINN) by incorporating a dedicated control branch. By decoupling the optimization objectives at the gradient level via selective gradient flow, our method turns a previously intractable multi-task optimization into a well-conditioned one, allowing simulation and control to be optimized jointly without compromise. Numerical simulations on a two-qubit Heisenberg XXX model confirm that our framework faithfully reproduces the features of non-Markovian dynamics, including decoherence and information backflow. Taking a state-preparation task on the same model as an example, our FPINN achieves higher fidelity than gradient ascent pulse engineering, chopped random basis, and standard PINNs, with the advantage becoming more pronounced as the environment becomes more dissipative and more Markovian. The generated pulses are also noticeably smoother, which is advantageous for experimental implementation. Our framework thus provides a unified, end-to-end differentiable paradigm for simulation and control of open quantum systems, with potential implications for quantum computing, simulation, and control.
The classical Internet faces increasing limitations as data generation and device interconnectivity expand at unprecedented rates. In recent years, this has highlighted the need for communication frameworks that surpass classical limitations. The quantum Internet (QI), composed of multiple layers of quantum communication networks (QCNs), holds promise for remarkable capabilities in secure transmission, distributed quantum computing, and quantum-enhanced sensing. Accurate and scalable modeling of QCNs is essential for designing, analyzing, and optimizing QI protocols under realistic physical conditions. To model such open quantum systems under Markovian noise, the Lindblad master equation is widely used, but its modeling complexity grows exponentially with the system size. In this work, we introduce a learned approach that utilizes a physics-informed neural network (PINN) to model the dynamics of open quantum systems, which embeds the Lindblad formalism directly into the neural network's loss function. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method by simulating the entanglement fidelity decay of a two-qubit Bell state under energy damping and phase decoherence noise, which is a relevant scenario for entanglement-based QI protocols. Preliminary numerical results show that the PINN-based solver aligns with conventional partial differential equation techniques while offering improved scalability. These findings suggest that PINNs could serve as an efficient approach for accelerating the analysis of future quantum networking solutions. Finally, we conclude by outlining key future directions for scaling the framework to support QCN-level optimization.
Recently, physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have aroused an upsurge in the field of scientific computing including solving partial differential equations (PDEs), which convert the task of solving PDEs into an optimization challenge by adopting governing equations and definite conditions or observation data as loss functions. Essentially, the underlying logic of PINNs is based on the universal approximation and differentiability properties of classical neural networks (NNs). Recent research has revealed that quantum neural networks (QNNs), known as parameterized quantum circuits, also exhibit universal approximation and differentiability properties. This observation naturally suggests the application of PINNs to QNNs. In this work, we introduce a physics-informed quantum neural network (PI-QNN) by employing the QNN as the function approximator for solving forward and inverse problems of PDEs. The performance of the proposed PI-QNN is evaluated by various forward and inverse PDE problems. Numerical results indicate that PI-QNN demonstrates superior convergence over PINN when solving PDEs with exact solutions that are strongly correlated with trigonometric functions. Moreover, its accuracy surpasses that of PINN by two to three orders of magnitude, while requiring fewer trainable parameters. However, the computational time of PI-QNN exceeds that of PINN due to its operation on classical computers. This limitation may improve with the advent of commercial quantum computers in the future. Furthermore, we briefly investigate the impact of network architecture on PI-QNN performance by examining two different QNN architectures. The results suggest that increasing the number of trainable network layers can enhance the expressiveness of PI-QNN. However, an excessive number of data encoding layers significantly increases computational time, rendering the marginal gains in performance insufficient to compensate for the shortcomings in computational efficiency.
Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) represent a methodology that integrates physical equations into neural networks. By incorporating the residuals of physical equations as part of the loss function, PINNs enable the network to learn data features while simultaneously satisfying the constraints imposed by physical laws. The underlying principle of PINNs involves using optimization algorithms to iteratively update the network parameters until the value of a specified physics-informed loss function decreases to an acceptable level, thereby driving the network towards the solution of the differential equations. This approach is not merely a tool but serves as a bridge integrating scientific computing with artificial intelligence, offering novel paradigms for modeling and predicting complex systems. In this paper, we propose a non-Hermitian shortcut to adiabaticity (STA) scheme based on physics-informed neural networks. We utilize the physics-informed neural networks to solve parameterized differential equations, employing the neural networks as an approximating function for the quantum adiabatic evolution process. This provides an interpretable and end-to-end framework (termed STAPINNs) for control-field optimization, distinct from traditional gradient-based approaches like gradient ascent pulse engineering (GRAPE), which require pre-defined pulse parameterization. The parameterized differential equations, along with various physical constraints, are incorporated into the network's loss function. Training the networks allows them to fit the quantum system's evolution process and obtain the driving control function for population inversion. Compared to conventional STA techniques, our approach introduces machine learning into non-Hermitian quantum systems, enabling highly robust and high-fidelity population transfer. Numerical simulations demonstrate that the proposed method significantly outperforms traditional STA protocols under dissipative conditions, achieving fidelities above 0.99 even in the presence of substantial decoherence. Moreover, the framework demonstrates strong generalization across wide parameter ranges and is inherently scalable to multi-level and many-body systems due to the mesh-free, high-dimensional handling capability of PINNs. Neural networks possess strong computational capabilities suitable for generating driving control functions in complex systems, and are equally applicable to non-Hermitian STA techniques. The STAPINNs framework not only enhances control flexibility but also provides a powerful tool for optimizing quantum operations in open and noisy systems.
This work integrates the physics-informed neural network (PINN) approach into the neural quantum state framework to simulate open quantum system dynamics, to circumvent the computationally expensive time-dependent variational principle required in conventional variational methods. The proposed PINN-DQME method employs time-encoded neural networks within a time-domain decomposition strategy to represent the evolution governed by the dissipaton-embedded quantum master equation (DQME). We implement and validate this approach in the single-impurity Anderson model, benchmarking the PINN-DQME results against the numerically exact hierarchical equations of motion. The PINN-DQME method demonstrates high accuracy in simulating quantum dissipative dynamics at high temperatures, where non-Markovian effects are weak. However, for strongly non-Markovian dynamics at low temperatures, it encounters challenges with error accumulation during time propagation, highlighting an area for future refinement in applying PINNs to complex quantum dynamical settings.