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Auteurs principaux: Malyshev, Oleksii, Linsel, Simon M., Grusdt, Fabian, Bohrdt, Annabelle, Demler, Eugene, Morera, Ivan
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Publié: 2026
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.13485
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author Malyshev, Oleksii
Linsel, Simon M.
Grusdt, Fabian
Bohrdt, Annabelle
Demler, Eugene
Morera, Ivan
author_facet Malyshev, Oleksii
Linsel, Simon M.
Grusdt, Fabian
Bohrdt, Annabelle
Demler, Eugene
Morera, Ivan
contents The ability of modern quantum simulators--both digital and analogue--to generate large ensembles of single-shot projective "snapshots" has opened a data-rich avenue for the study of quantum many-body systems. Unsupervised machine learning analysis of such snapshots has gained traction, with numerous works reconstructing phase diagrams by learning and clustering low-dimensional representations of quantum states. Here, we forgo such representation learning in favour of distance learning: we infer the pairwise distances between quantum states--already sufficient for clustering--directly from snapshots. Specifically, we use a single neural discriminator to estimate Csiszar f-divergences--statistical distances between distributions--in an unsupervised manner. The resulting clusters reveal regimes with different dominant correlations, often coinciding with, but not limited to, conventionally defined phases of matter. Beyond phase-diagram exploration, we connect the infinitesimal limit of the inferred divergences to the Fisher information metric and analyse its finite-size scaling. This yields critical exponents of the discovered transitions and enables snapshot-based analysis of universality classes. We apply distance learning to a diverse set of systems characterised by conventional local order parameters (1D transverse-field and 2D classical Ising models), non-local topological order (extended toric code), and higher-order correlations (fermionic t-J model on a triangular lattice). In all cases, we correctly recover boundaries between distinct correlation regimes and, where applicable, quantitatively match established critical behaviour. Finally, we show that distances to suitably chosen reference snapshot distributions help identify the dominant correlations within the discovered clusters, positioning distance learning as a versatile information-geometric probe of quantum many-body physics.
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spellingShingle Distance learning from projective measurements as an information-geometric probe of many-body physics
Malyshev, Oleksii
Linsel, Simon M.
Grusdt, Fabian
Bohrdt, Annabelle
Demler, Eugene
Morera, Ivan
Quantum Physics
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Quantum Gases
Computational Physics
The ability of modern quantum simulators--both digital and analogue--to generate large ensembles of single-shot projective "snapshots" has opened a data-rich avenue for the study of quantum many-body systems. Unsupervised machine learning analysis of such snapshots has gained traction, with numerous works reconstructing phase diagrams by learning and clustering low-dimensional representations of quantum states. Here, we forgo such representation learning in favour of distance learning: we infer the pairwise distances between quantum states--already sufficient for clustering--directly from snapshots. Specifically, we use a single neural discriminator to estimate Csiszar f-divergences--statistical distances between distributions--in an unsupervised manner. The resulting clusters reveal regimes with different dominant correlations, often coinciding with, but not limited to, conventionally defined phases of matter. Beyond phase-diagram exploration, we connect the infinitesimal limit of the inferred divergences to the Fisher information metric and analyse its finite-size scaling. This yields critical exponents of the discovered transitions and enables snapshot-based analysis of universality classes. We apply distance learning to a diverse set of systems characterised by conventional local order parameters (1D transverse-field and 2D classical Ising models), non-local topological order (extended toric code), and higher-order correlations (fermionic t-J model on a triangular lattice). In all cases, we correctly recover boundaries between distinct correlation regimes and, where applicable, quantitatively match established critical behaviour. Finally, we show that distances to suitably chosen reference snapshot distributions help identify the dominant correlations within the discovered clusters, positioning distance learning as a versatile information-geometric probe of quantum many-body physics.
title Distance learning from projective measurements as an information-geometric probe of many-body physics
topic Quantum Physics
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Quantum Gases
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.13485