A Group-Equivariant Autoencoder for Identifying Spontaneously Broken Symmetries

Abstract

We introduce the group-equivariant autoencoder (GE-autoencoder) -- a deep neural network (DNN) method that locates phase boundaries by determining which symmetries of the Hamiltonian have spontaneously broken at each temperature. We use group theory to deduce which symmetries of the system remain intact in all phases, and then use this information to constrain the parameters of the GE-autoencoder such that the encoder learns an order parameter invariant to these ``never-broken'' symmetries. This procedure produces a dramatic reduction in the number of free parameters such that the GE-autoencoder size is independent of the system size. We include symmetry regularization terms in the loss function of the GE-autoencoder so that the learned order parameter is also equivariant to the remaining symmetries of the system. By examining the group representation by which the learned order parameter transforms, we are then able to extract information about the associated spontaneous symmetry breaking. We test the GE-autoencoder on the 2D classical ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic Ising models, finding that the GE-autoencoder (1) accurately determines which symmetries have spontaneously broken at each temperature; (2) estimates the critical temperature in the thermodynamic limit with greater accuracy, robustness, and time-efficiency than a symmetry-agnostic baseline autoencoder; and (3) detects the presence of an external symmetry-breaking magnetic field with greater sensitivity than the baseline method. Finally, we describe various key implementation details, including a new method for extracting the critical temperature estimate from trained autoencoders and calculations of the DNN initialization and learning rate settings required for fair model comparisons.

arXiv comment28 pages, 14 figures. For associated code repository see https://github.com/dagrawa2/ssb_detection_ising

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