Entanglement and optimization within autoregressive neural quantum states
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| author | Jreissaty, Andrew Zhang, Hang Quijano, Jairo C. Carrasquilla, Juan Wiersema, Roeland |
| author_facet | Jreissaty, Andrew Zhang, Hang Quijano, Jairo C. Carrasquilla, Juan Wiersema, Roeland |
| contents | Neural quantum states (NQSs) are powerful variational ansätze capable of representing highly entangled quantum many-body wavefunctions. While the average entanglement properties of ensembles of restricted Boltzmann machines are well understood, the entanglement structure of autoregressive NQSs such as recurrent neural networks and transformers remains largely unexplored. We perform large-scale simulations of ensembles of random autoregressive wavefunctions for chains of up to $256$ spins and uncover signatures of transitions in their average entanglement scaling, entanglement spectra, and correlation functions. We show that the standard softmax normalization of the wavefunction suppresses entanglement and fluctuations, and introduce a square modulus normalization function that restores them. Finally, we connect the insights gained from our entanglement and activation function analysis to initialization strategies for finding the ground states of strongly correlated Hamiltonians via variational Monte Carlo. |
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| spellingShingle | Entanglement and optimization within autoregressive neural quantum states Jreissaty, Andrew Zhang, Hang Quijano, Jairo C. Carrasquilla, Juan Wiersema, Roeland Quantum Physics Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Neural quantum states (NQSs) are powerful variational ansätze capable of representing highly entangled quantum many-body wavefunctions. While the average entanglement properties of ensembles of restricted Boltzmann machines are well understood, the entanglement structure of autoregressive NQSs such as recurrent neural networks and transformers remains largely unexplored. We perform large-scale simulations of ensembles of random autoregressive wavefunctions for chains of up to $256$ spins and uncover signatures of transitions in their average entanglement scaling, entanglement spectra, and correlation functions. We show that the standard softmax normalization of the wavefunction suppresses entanglement and fluctuations, and introduce a square modulus normalization function that restores them. Finally, we connect the insights gained from our entanglement and activation function analysis to initialization strategies for finding the ground states of strongly correlated Hamiltonians via variational Monte Carlo. |
| title | Entanglement and optimization within autoregressive neural quantum states |
| topic | Quantum Physics Disordered Systems and Neural Networks |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12365 |