Universal Neural Propagator: Learning Time Evolution in Many-Body Quantum Systems
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| author | Qi, Zihao Earls, Christopher Peng, Yang |
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| contents | Conventional approaches to simulating quantum many-body dynamics produce a single trajectory: if the Hamiltonian or the initial state is changed, the computation must be re-performed. Recent efforts toward foundation models have begun to address this limitation, yet existing methods transfer across either Hamiltonians or initial states, but not both. In this work, we introduce the Universal Neural Propagator (UNP), a single, unified model that learns the functional mapping from driving protocols to time-evolution propagators. Trained in an entirely self-supervised way, a single UNP model predicts dynamics across a function space of driving protocols and an exponentially large Hilbert space of initial states simultaneously. We benchmark on a two-dimensional driven Ising model and demonstrate the UNP's accuracy and transferability across product and entangled initial states, as well as for both in- and out-of-distribution driving protocols. The UNP remains accurate at system sizes beyond exact diagonalization, and can be efficiently fine-tuned across all initial states using observable data. By shifting the object of learning from quantum states to operators, this work opens a route toward transferable simulation of driven quantum matter. |
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| spellingShingle | Universal Neural Propagator: Learning Time Evolution in Many-Body Quantum Systems Qi, Zihao Earls, Christopher Peng, Yang Quantum Physics Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons Computational Physics Conventional approaches to simulating quantum many-body dynamics produce a single trajectory: if the Hamiltonian or the initial state is changed, the computation must be re-performed. Recent efforts toward foundation models have begun to address this limitation, yet existing methods transfer across either Hamiltonians or initial states, but not both. In this work, we introduce the Universal Neural Propagator (UNP), a single, unified model that learns the functional mapping from driving protocols to time-evolution propagators. Trained in an entirely self-supervised way, a single UNP model predicts dynamics across a function space of driving protocols and an exponentially large Hilbert space of initial states simultaneously. We benchmark on a two-dimensional driven Ising model and demonstrate the UNP's accuracy and transferability across product and entangled initial states, as well as for both in- and out-of-distribution driving protocols. The UNP remains accurate at system sizes beyond exact diagonalization, and can be efficiently fine-tuned across all initial states using observable data. By shifting the object of learning from quantum states to operators, this work opens a route toward transferable simulation of driven quantum matter. |
| title | Universal Neural Propagator: Learning Time Evolution in Many-Body Quantum Systems |
| topic | Quantum Physics Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons Computational Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.05299 |