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From observations to complexity of quantum states via unsupervised learning

Markus Schmitt1,2,* and Zala Lenarčič1,3

  • 1Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
  • 2Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität zu Köln, 50937 Köln, Germany
  • 3Jožef Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

  • *markus.schmitt@uni-koeln.de

Phys. Rev. B 106, L041110 – Published 14 July, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.106.L041110

Abstract

The vast complexity is a daunting property of generic quantum states that poses a significant challenge for theoretical treatment, especially in nonequilibrium setups. Therefore, it is vital to recognize states which are locally less complex and thus describable with (classical) effective theories. We use unsupervised learning with autoencoder neural networks to detect the local complexity of time-evolved states by determining the minimal number of parameters needed to reproduce local observations. The latter can be used as a probe of thermalization, to assign the local complexity of density matrices in open setups, and for the reconstruction of underlying Hamiltonian operators. Our approach is an ideal diagnostics tool for data obtained from (noisy) quantum simulators because it requires only practically accessible local observations.

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