12–16 Jun 2023
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
America/Toronto timezone

Unsupervised detection of quantum phases and their order parameters from projective measurements

14 Jun 2023, 14:00
30m
PI/1-100 - Theatre (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

PI/1-100 - Theatre

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

190

Speaker

Anna Dawid (Flatiron Institute)

Description

Recently, machine learning has become a powerful tool for detecting quantum phases. While the sole information about the presence of transition is valuable, the lack of interpretability and knowledge on the detected order parameter prevents this tool from becoming a customary element of a physicist's toolbox. Here, we report designing a special convolutional neural network with adaptive kernels, which allows for fully interpretable and unsupervised detection of local order parameters out of spin configurations measured in arbitrary bases. With the proposed architecture, we detect relevant and simplest order parameters for the one-dimensional transverse-field Ising model from any combination of projective measurements in the x, y, or z basis. Moreover, we successfully tackle the bilinear-biquadratic spin-1 model with a nontrivial nematic order. We also consider extending the proposed approach to detecting topological order parameters. This work can lead to integrating machine learning methods with quantum simulators studying new exotic phases of matter.

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