3–4 Feb 2025
Facultat de Física
Europe/Madrid timezone

Neural Quantum States in Nuclear Physics

4 Feb 2025, 12:35
25m
Aula Magna Enric Casassas (Facultat de Física)

Aula Magna Enric Casassas

Facultat de Física

Martí i Franqués, 1 08028 Barcelona

Speaker

Javi Rozalén Sarmiento (Universitat de Barcelona)

Description

The nuclear many-body problem poses a significant computational challenge. The Neural-Network Quantum States (NQS) method, leveraging machine learning, has emerged as a promising approach for nuclear structure and quantum many-body simulations [1-4]. This variational method employs neural networks as flexible wave function ansätze, enabling the representation of complex quantum states.
In this talk, I present an overview of the NQS method. I discuss the two principal research lines in the field, namely neural network architectures and energy minimisation, and I mention our contributions to these fields [1, 2, 5].

[1] J. Keeble & A. Rios, Phys. Lett. B 809 (2020)
[2] J. Rozalén Sarmiento, J. Keeble & A. Rios, EPJ Plus 139 (2024)
[3] C. Wang, T. Naito, J. Li & H. Liang, arXiv 2403.16819 (2024)
[4] A. Lovato, C. Adams, G. Carleo & N. Rocco, Phys. Rev. Res. 4 (2022)
[5] M. Drissi, J. Keeble, J. Rozalén Sarmiento & A. Rios, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 382 (2024)

Primary authors

Arnau Rios Huguet (University of Barcelona) Dr James Keeble (Bielefeld University) Javi Rozalén Sarmiento (Universitat de Barcelona) Dr Mehdi Drissi (TRIUMF, Theory Department)

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