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Predicting Ground State Properties: Constant Sample Complexity and Deep Learning Algorithms

28 May 2024arXiv:2405.18489archive 2025-07-28

Marc Wanner, Laura Lewis, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya, Devdatt Dubhashi, Alexandru Gheorghiu

A fundamental problem in quantum many-body physics is that of finding ground states of local Hamiltonians. A number of recent works gave provably efficient machine learning (ML) algorithms for learning ground states. Specifically, [Huang et al. Science 2022], introduced an approach for learning properties of the ground state of an n-qubit gapped local Hamiltonian H from only n^(𝒪(1)) data points sampled from Hamiltonians in the same phase of matter. This was subsequently improved by [Lewis et al. Nature Communications 2024], to 𝒪(logn) samples when the geometry of the n-qubit system is known. In this work, we introduce two approaches that achieve a constant sample complexity, independent of system size n, for learning ground state properties. Our first algorithm consists of a simple modification of the ML model used by Lewis et al. and applies to a property of interest known beforehand. Our second algorithm, which applies even if a description of the property is not known, is a deep neural network model. While empirical results showing the performance of neural networks have been demonstrated, to our knowledge, this is the first rigorous sample complexity bound on a neural network model for predicting ground state properties. We also perform numerical experiments that confirm the improved scaling of our approach compared to earlier results.

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