High-capacity associative memory in a quantum-optical spin glass

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Autori principali: Marsh, Brendan P., Schuller, David Atri, Ji, Yunpeng, Hunt, Henry S., Ganguli, Surya, Gopalakrishnan, Sarang, Keeling, Jonathan, Lev, Benjamin L.
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author Marsh, Brendan P.
Schuller, David Atri
Ji, Yunpeng
Hunt, Henry S.
Ganguli, Surya
Gopalakrishnan, Sarang
Keeling, Jonathan
Lev, Benjamin L.
author_facet Marsh, Brendan P.
Schuller, David Atri
Ji, Yunpeng
Hunt, Henry S.
Ganguli, Surya
Gopalakrishnan, Sarang
Keeling, Jonathan
Lev, Benjamin L.
contents The Hopfield model describes a neural network that stores memories using all-to-all-coupled spins. Memory patterns are recalled under equilibrium dynamics. Storing too many patterns breaks the associative recall process because frustration causes an exponential number of spurious patterns to arise as the network becomes a spin glass. Despite this, memory recall in a spin glass can be restored, and even enhanced, under quantum-optical nonequilibrium dynamics because spurious patterns can now serve as reliable memories. We experimentally observe associative memory with high storage capacity in a driven-dissipative spin glass made of atoms and photons. The capacity surpasses the Hopfield limit by up to seven-fold in a sixteen-spin network. Atomic motion boosts capacity by dynamically modifying connectivity akin to short-term synaptic plasticity in neural networks, realizing a precursor to learning in a quantum-optical system.
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spellingShingle High-capacity associative memory in a quantum-optical spin glass
Marsh, Brendan P.
Schuller, David Atri
Ji, Yunpeng
Hunt, Henry S.
Ganguli, Surya
Gopalakrishnan, Sarang
Keeling, Jonathan
Lev, Benjamin L.
Quantum Physics
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Quantum Gases
Statistical Mechanics
Atomic Physics
The Hopfield model describes a neural network that stores memories using all-to-all-coupled spins. Memory patterns are recalled under equilibrium dynamics. Storing too many patterns breaks the associative recall process because frustration causes an exponential number of spurious patterns to arise as the network becomes a spin glass. Despite this, memory recall in a spin glass can be restored, and even enhanced, under quantum-optical nonequilibrium dynamics because spurious patterns can now serve as reliable memories. We experimentally observe associative memory with high storage capacity in a driven-dissipative spin glass made of atoms and photons. The capacity surpasses the Hopfield limit by up to seven-fold in a sixteen-spin network. Atomic motion boosts capacity by dynamically modifying connectivity akin to short-term synaptic plasticity in neural networks, realizing a precursor to learning in a quantum-optical system.
title High-capacity associative memory in a quantum-optical spin glass
topic Quantum Physics
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Quantum Gases
Statistical Mechanics
Atomic Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12202