https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-12558-3
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
The expressivity of classical and quantum neural networks on entanglement entropy
1
Department of Physics, University of California, 93106, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
2
MediaTek Inc., Hsinchu, Taiwan
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chih-hungwu@physics.ucsb.edu
Received:
12
November
2023
Accepted:
15
February
2024
Published online:
26
February
2024
Analytically continuing the von Neumann entropy from Rényi entropies is a challenging task in quantum field theory. While the n-th Rényi entropy can be computed using the replica method in the path integral representation of quantum field theory, the analytic continuation can only be achieved for some simple systems on a case-by-case basis. In this work, we propose a general framework to tackle this problem using classical and quantum neural networks with supervised learning. We begin by studying several examples with known von Neumann entropy, where the input data is generated by representing 
with a generating function. We adopt KerasTuner to determine the optimal network architecture and hyperparameters with limited data. In addition, we frame a similar problem in terms of quantum machine learning models, where the expressivity of the quantum models for the entanglement entropy as a partial Fourier series is established. Our proposed methods can accurately predict the von Neumann and Rényi entropies numerically, highlighting the potential of deep learning techniques for solving problems in quantum information theory.
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