Neural-network quantum states for many-body physics

Abstract

Variational quantum calculations have borrowed many tools and algorithms from the machine learning community in the recent years. Leveraging great expressive power and efficient gradient-based optimization, researchers have shown that trial states inspired by deep learning problems can accurately model many-body correlated phenomena in spin, fermionic and qubit systems. In this review, we derive the central equations of different flavors variational Monte Carlo (VMC) approaches, including ground state search, time evolution and overlap optimization, and discuss data-driven tasks like quantum state tomography. An emphasis is put on the geometry of the variational manifold as well as bottlenecks in practical implementations. An overview of recent results of first-principles ground-state and real-time calculations is provided.