Why neural functionals suit statistical mechanics

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Autori principali: Sammüller, Florian, Hermann, Sophie, Schmidt, Matthias
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author Sammüller, Florian
Hermann, Sophie
Schmidt, Matthias
author_facet Sammüller, Florian
Hermann, Sophie
Schmidt, Matthias
contents We describe recent progress in the statistical mechanical description of many-body systems via machine learning combined with concepts from density functional theory and many-body simulations. We argue that the neural functional theory by Sammüller et al. [Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 120, e2312484120 (2023)] gives a functional representation of direct correlations and of thermodynamics that allows for thorough quality control and consistency checking of the involved methods of artificial intelligence. Addressing a prototypical system we here present a pedagogical application to hard core particle in one spatial dimension, where Percus' exact solution for the free energy functional provides an unambiguous reference. A corresponding standalone numerical tutorial that demonstrates the neural functional concepts together with the underlying fundamentals of Monte Carlo simulations, classical density functional theory, machine learning, and differential programming is available online at https://github.com/sfalmo/NeuralDFT-Tutorial.
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spellingShingle Why neural functionals suit statistical mechanics
Sammüller, Florian
Hermann, Sophie
Schmidt, Matthias
Soft Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
We describe recent progress in the statistical mechanical description of many-body systems via machine learning combined with concepts from density functional theory and many-body simulations. We argue that the neural functional theory by Sammüller et al. [Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 120, e2312484120 (2023)] gives a functional representation of direct correlations and of thermodynamics that allows for thorough quality control and consistency checking of the involved methods of artificial intelligence. Addressing a prototypical system we here present a pedagogical application to hard core particle in one spatial dimension, where Percus' exact solution for the free energy functional provides an unambiguous reference. A corresponding standalone numerical tutorial that demonstrates the neural functional concepts together with the underlying fundamentals of Monte Carlo simulations, classical density functional theory, machine learning, and differential programming is available online at https://github.com/sfalmo/NeuralDFT-Tutorial.
title Why neural functionals suit statistical mechanics
topic Soft Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04681