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Autores principales: Paul, Nisarga, Ma, Andrew, Nuckolls, Kevin P.
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Publicado: 2025
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09604
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author Paul, Nisarga
Ma, Andrew
Nuckolls, Kevin P.
author_facet Paul, Nisarga
Ma, Andrew
Nuckolls, Kevin P.
contents Reconstructing a quantum system's Hamiltonian from limited yet experimentally observable information is interesting both as a practical task and from a fundamental standpoint. We pose and investigate the inverse problem of reconstructing a Hamiltonian from a spatial map of the local density of states (LDOS) near a fixed energy. We demonstrate high-quality recovery of Hamiltonians from the LDOS using supervised learning. In particular, we generate synthetic data from single-particle Hamiltonians in 1D and 2D, train convolutional neural networks, and obtain models that solve the inverse problem with remarkably high accuracy. Moreover, we are able to generalize beyond the training distribution and develop models with strong robustness to noise. Finally, we comment on possible experimental applications to scanning tunneling microscopy, where we propose that maps of the electronic local density of states might be used to reveal a sample's unknown underlying energy landscape.
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spellingShingle Reconstructing the Hamiltonian from the local density of states using neural networks
Paul, Nisarga
Ma, Andrew
Nuckolls, Kevin P.
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Quantum Physics
Reconstructing a quantum system's Hamiltonian from limited yet experimentally observable information is interesting both as a practical task and from a fundamental standpoint. We pose and investigate the inverse problem of reconstructing a Hamiltonian from a spatial map of the local density of states (LDOS) near a fixed energy. We demonstrate high-quality recovery of Hamiltonians from the LDOS using supervised learning. In particular, we generate synthetic data from single-particle Hamiltonians in 1D and 2D, train convolutional neural networks, and obtain models that solve the inverse problem with remarkably high accuracy. Moreover, we are able to generalize beyond the training distribution and develop models with strong robustness to noise. Finally, we comment on possible experimental applications to scanning tunneling microscopy, where we propose that maps of the electronic local density of states might be used to reveal a sample's unknown underlying energy landscape.
title Reconstructing the Hamiltonian from the local density of states using neural networks
topic Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09604