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  1. scalable approach to many-body localization via quantum data

Alexander Gresch

Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf, Germany

26 April 2022 Tue 5 pm

                                      IBS Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems (PCS), Administrative Office (B349), Theory Wing, 3rd floor

                                      Expo-ro 55, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, South Korea, 34126 Tel: +82-42-878-8633                     

We are interested in how quantum data can allow for practical solutions to otherwise difficult computational problems. A notoriously difficult phenomenon from quantum many-body physics is the emergence of many-body localization (MBL). So far, it has evaded a comprehensive analysis. In particular, numerical studies are challenged by the exponential growth of the Hilbert space dimension. As many of these studies rely on exact diagonalization of the system's Hamiltonian, only small system sizes are accessible. In this work, we propose a highly flexible neural network based learning approach that, once given training data, circumvents any computationally expensive step. In this way, we can efficiently estimate common indicators of MBL such as the adjacent gap ratio or entropic quantities. Our estimator can be trained on data from various system sizes at once which grants the ability to extrapolate from smaller to larger ones. Moreover, using transfer learning we show that already a two-dimensional feature vector is sufficient to obtain several different indicators at various energy densities at once. We hope that our approach can be applied to large-scale quantum experiments to provide new insights into quantum many-body physics.