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Eliminating Secular Density Drift and Positivity Violation in Open Quantum Neural Simulators via Idempotent Quantum State Manifold Projections

A. Emre Cetin

Published Sep 19, 2026• 0 citations
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Simulating open quantum multi-body systems governed by the Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad (GKSL) master equation is essential for quantum optimal control, superconducting qubit characterization, and quantum error mitigation. However, when deploying Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) or Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (Neural ODEs) as accelerated surrogates for open quantum dynamics, long-horizon autoregressive rollouts suffer from secular drift: (1) trace conservation breakdown (|Tr(ρ) − 1| > 0), violating total probability conservation; (2) loss of positive semi-definiteness (λmin(ρ) < 0), producing unphysical negative quantum measurement probabilities; and (3) distortion of purity and decoherence envelopes. While static metric projection of noisy density matrices onto the state spectrahedron is established in quantum tomography (Smolin et al., PRL 2012; Michelot 1986), its rigorous dynamical integration into autoregressive scientific machine learning (SciML) time-stepping loops remains unexplored. In this paper, we formulate an exact, non-dissipative dynamical framework: Idempotent Quantum State Manifold Projections (ΠS2 = ΠS) integrated via operator splitting into neural surrogate rollouts. We prove that ΠS is firmly non-expansive, preserving the high-order convergence rate of the underlying differential integrator while unconditionally eradicating secular trace runaway and negative probabilities without damping physical coherences. On a canonical benchmark of a driven-dissipative superconducting qubit under spontaneous relaxation and dephasing (4,000 integration steps, t = 20.0, replicated over 10 independent random seeds): Unconstrained neural rollouts suffer severe trace drift (|Tr(ρ) − 1| = (3.91 ± 1.25) × 10−3) and negative eigenvalues (λmin = (−1.21 ± 0.82) × 10−4); A standard Cholesky regularization baseline (ρ = L L† / Tr(L L†) with adaptive diagonal jitter εI) requires artificial diagonal entropy injection that dilutes low-entropy states; IdemSolver ΠS maintains exact unit trace ((8.44 ± 0.89) × 10−16), strictly non-negative eigenvalues (λmin ≥ 0), pristine Rabi coherence, exact steady-state purity (0.5244 ± 0.0005 matching the exact physical Lindblad baseline 0.5244), and machine-zero idempotency residual ((1.10 ± 0.08) × 10−15); and Achieves a step latency of 122.70 ± 4.70 μs (>8.1 kHz update rate), establishing a verified algebraic safeguard for real-time quantum control and SciML digital twins.

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10.5281/zenodo.22839582

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