Solving Classical and Quantum Spin Glasses with Deep Boltzmann Quantum States

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Hauptverfasser: Leone, Luca, Dutta, Arka, Heyl, Markus, Prati, Enrico, Torta, Pietro
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author Leone, Luca
Dutta, Arka
Heyl, Markus
Prati, Enrico
Torta, Pietro
author_facet Leone, Luca
Dutta, Arka
Heyl, Markus
Prati, Enrico
Torta, Pietro
contents Variational neural network models have achieved remarkable success in solving ground-state problems of quantum many-body systems. However, addressing classical and quantum spin glasses remains challenging, as disorder and energy frustration give rise to an exponentially large number of local energy minima separated by high-energy barriers, hindering the efficiency of conventional Metropolis-based Monte Carlo methods. To bridge this gap, we introduce Deep Boltzmann Quantum States, a class of neural quantum states inspired by deep Boltzmann machines that inherit efficient block Gibbs sampling. We also propose two key advances in the training algorithm. Firstly, we combine natural-gradient updates with state-of-the-art stochastic optimizers. Secondly, we gradually tune the hardness of the problem Hamiltonian by interpolating from an easy to a hard regime, without the need to closely approximate the instantaneous adiabatic state at intermediate times. We match the exact solution or the best available estimate for several instances of classical and quantum Ising spin-glass models with infinite-range interactions and hundreds of spins. We also solve instances of the NP-hard Job Shop Scheduling Problem exceeding the current limitations of quantum annealing hardware. To summarize, deep neural architectures with efficient global update rules and trained within an annealing-like scheme, provide a powerful framework for solving real-world hard combinatorial optimization and for investigating disordered quantum many-body systems.
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spellingShingle Solving Classical and Quantum Spin Glasses with Deep Boltzmann Quantum States
Leone, Luca
Dutta, Arka
Heyl, Markus
Prati, Enrico
Torta, Pietro
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Quantum Physics
Variational neural network models have achieved remarkable success in solving ground-state problems of quantum many-body systems. However, addressing classical and quantum spin glasses remains challenging, as disorder and energy frustration give rise to an exponentially large number of local energy minima separated by high-energy barriers, hindering the efficiency of conventional Metropolis-based Monte Carlo methods. To bridge this gap, we introduce Deep Boltzmann Quantum States, a class of neural quantum states inspired by deep Boltzmann machines that inherit efficient block Gibbs sampling. We also propose two key advances in the training algorithm. Firstly, we combine natural-gradient updates with state-of-the-art stochastic optimizers. Secondly, we gradually tune the hardness of the problem Hamiltonian by interpolating from an easy to a hard regime, without the need to closely approximate the instantaneous adiabatic state at intermediate times. We match the exact solution or the best available estimate for several instances of classical and quantum Ising spin-glass models with infinite-range interactions and hundreds of spins. We also solve instances of the NP-hard Job Shop Scheduling Problem exceeding the current limitations of quantum annealing hardware. To summarize, deep neural architectures with efficient global update rules and trained within an annealing-like scheme, provide a powerful framework for solving real-world hard combinatorial optimization and for investigating disordered quantum many-body systems.
title Solving Classical and Quantum Spin Glasses with Deep Boltzmann Quantum States
topic Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15899