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Learning Quantum Distributions with Variational Diffusion Models

  • Yong Wang
  • , Shuming Cheng
  • , Li Li
  • , Jie Chen
  • Tongji University

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Abstract

It is challenging to identify the state of many-body quantum systems, as recovering density matrices underlying the quantum state typically requires computational resources scale exponentially to the system size. In this work, we introduce the variational diffusion model (VDM) to efficiently learn high-dimensional quantum distributions with high fidelity, which is essential to realize the fast reconstruction of quantum states. We build up the VDM suitable for dealing with the high-dimensional quantum samples, and then perform numerical experiments to test our model and other autoregressive models, including recurrent neural network and transformer. It is found that the VDM can achieve a modest better performance with fewest parameters than other two to learn the distribution as desired. Our results pave the way to applying diffusion models to solve hard problems in the quantum domain.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIFAC-PapersOnLine
EditorsHideaki Ishii, Yoshio Ebihara, Jun-ichi Imura, Masaki Yamakita
PublisherElsevier B.V.
Pages5888-5893
Number of pages6
Edition2
ISBN (Electronic)9781713872344
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jul 2023
Externally publishedYes
Event22nd IFAC World Congress - Yokohama, Japan
Duration: 9 Jul 202314 Jul 2023

Publication series

NameIFAC-PapersOnLine
Number2
Volume56
ISSN (Electronic)2405-8963

Conference

Conference22nd IFAC World Congress
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityYokohama
Period9/07/2314/07/23

Keywords

  • Quantum state tomography
  • generative models
  • quantum distributions
  • variational diffusion model

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