Addressing the ground state of the deuteron by physics-informed neural networks

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Auteurs principaux: Brevi, Lorenzo, Mandarino, Antonio, Barbieri, Carlo, Prati, Enrico
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author Brevi, Lorenzo
Mandarino, Antonio
Barbieri, Carlo
Prati, Enrico
author_facet Brevi, Lorenzo
Mandarino, Antonio
Barbieri, Carlo
Prati, Enrico
contents Machine learning techniques have proven to be effective in addressing the structure of atomic nuclei. Physics$-$Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) are a promising machine learning technique suitable for solving integro-differential problems such as the many-body Schrödinger problem. So far, there has been no demonstration of extracting nuclear eigenstates using such method. Here, we tackle realistic nucleon-nucleon interaction in momentum space, including models with strong high-momentum correlations, and demonstrate highly accurate results for the deuteron. We further provide additional benchmarks in coordinate space. We introduce an expression for the variational energy that enters the loss function, which can be evaluated efficiently within the PINNs framework. Results are in excellent agreement with proven numerical methods, with a relative error between the value of the predicted binding energy by the PINN and the numerical benchmark of the order of $10^{-6}$. Our approach paves the way for the exploitation of PINNs to solve more complex atomic nuclei.
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spellingShingle Addressing the ground state of the deuteron by physics-informed neural networks
Brevi, Lorenzo
Mandarino, Antonio
Barbieri, Carlo
Prati, Enrico
Computational Physics
Nuclear Theory
Quantum Physics
Machine learning techniques have proven to be effective in addressing the structure of atomic nuclei. Physics$-$Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) are a promising machine learning technique suitable for solving integro-differential problems such as the many-body Schrödinger problem. So far, there has been no demonstration of extracting nuclear eigenstates using such method. Here, we tackle realistic nucleon-nucleon interaction in momentum space, including models with strong high-momentum correlations, and demonstrate highly accurate results for the deuteron. We further provide additional benchmarks in coordinate space. We introduce an expression for the variational energy that enters the loss function, which can be evaluated efficiently within the PINNs framework. Results are in excellent agreement with proven numerical methods, with a relative error between the value of the predicted binding energy by the PINN and the numerical benchmark of the order of $10^{-6}$. Our approach paves the way for the exploitation of PINNs to solve more complex atomic nuclei.
title Addressing the ground state of the deuteron by physics-informed neural networks
topic Computational Physics
Nuclear Theory
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11193