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20182026
most citedNeural Quantum States of frustrated magnets: generalization and sign structure

135 citations · 375 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

quant-ph2026

Precision quantum simulation of magnon spectra and interactions

Trond I. Andersen, Nikita Astrakhantsev, Jeronimo Martinez +329

Quantum simulation promises to advance materials discovery by accurately simulating complex states of matter, their microscopic excitations, and macroscopic response functions. The…

quant-ph2025

A Heuristic for Matrix Product State Simulation of Out-of-Equilibrium Dynamics of Two-Dimensional Quantum Spin Systems

Salvatore Mandrà, Brayden Ware, Nikita Astrakhantsev +4

Out-of-equilibrium dynamics of non-integrable Hamiltonian many-body quantum systems are characterized by highly entangled wave functions. Near-maximal entanglement arises in system…

cond-mat.dis-nn2025★ 1 cited

Learning complexity of many-body quantum sign structures through the lens of Boolean Fourier analysis

Ilya Schurov, Anna Kravchenko, Mikhail I. Katsnelson +2

We study sign structures of the ground states of spin- magnetic systems using the methods of Boolean Fourier analysis. Previously it was shown that the sign structures of frus…

quant-ph2025

Constructive interference at the edge of quantum ergodic dynamics

Dmitry A. Abanin, Rajeev Acharya, Laleh Aghababaie-Beni +262

Quantum observables in the form of few-point correlators are the key to characterizing the dynamics of quantum many-body systems. In dynamics with fast entanglement generation, qua…

quant-ph2024

Observation of disorder-free localization using a (2+1)D lattice gauge theory on a quantum processor

Gaurav Gyawali, Shashwat Kumar, Yuri D. Lensky +219

Disorder-induced phenomena in quantum many-body systems pose significant challenges for analytical methods and numerical simulations at relevant time and system scales. To reduce t…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

Thermalization and Criticality on an Analog-Digital Quantum Simulator

Trond I. Andersen, Nikita Astrakhantsev, Amir H. Karamlou +224

Understanding how interacting particles approach thermal equilibrium is a major challenge of quantum simulators. Unlocking the full potential of such systems toward this goal requi…

quant-ph2023

Stability of a quantum skyrmion: projective measurements and the quantum Zeno effect

Fabio Salvati, Mikhail I. Katsnelson, Andrey A. Bagrov +1

Magnetic skyrmions are vortex-like quasiparticles characterized by long lifetime and remarkable topological properties. That makes them a promising candidate for the role of inform…

physics.comp-ph2023

Implementing scalable matrix-vector products for the exact diagonalization methods in quantum many-body physics

Tom Westerhout, Bradford L. Chamberlain

Exact diagonalization is a well-established method for simulating small quantum systems. Its applicability is limited by the exponential growth of the so-called Hamiltonian matrix…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 4 cited

Understanding Symmetry Breaking in Twisted Bilayer Graphene from Cluster Constraints

Nikita Astrakhantsev, Glenn Wagner, Tom Westerhout +2

Twisted bilayer graphene is an exciting platform for exploring correlated quantum phases, extremely tunable with respect to both the single-particle bands and the interaction profi…

cond-mat.dis-nn2022★ 8 cited

Many-body quantum sign structures as non-glassy Ising models

Tom Westerhout, Mikhail I. Katsnelson, Andrey A. Bagrov

The non-trivial phase structure of the eigenstates of many-body quantum systems severely limits the applicability of quantum Monte Carlo, variational, and machine learning methods.…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 10 cited

The role of correlated hopping in many-body physics of flat-band systems: Nagaoka ferromagnetism

Tom Westerhout, Mikhail I. Katsnelson

In narrow-band systems, correlated contribution to effective hopping becomes important, and one needs to carefully consider three types of hopping processes: between doubly and sin…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 11 cited

Plasmonic Quantum Dots in Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Tom Westerhout, Mikhail I. Katsnelson, Malte Rösner

We derive a material-realistic real-space many-body Hamiltonian for twisted bilayer graphene from first principles, including both single-particle hopping terms for electrons…

cond-mat.stat-mech2021★ 9 cited

Self-organized criticality in neural networks

Mikhail I. Katsnelson, Vitaly Vanchurin, Tom Westerhout

We demonstrate, both analytically and numerically, that learning dynamics of neural networks is generically attracted towards a self-organized critical state. The effect can be mod…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 21 cited

lattice-symmetries: A package for working with quantum many-body bases

Tom Westerhout

Exact diagonalization (ED) is one of the most reliable and established numerical methods of quantum many-body theory. The main limiting factor of the method is the exponential scal…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 4 cited

Broken-Symmetry Ground States of the Heisenberg model on the Pyrochlore Lattice

Nikita Astrakhantsev, Tom Westerhout, Apoorv Tiwari +5

The spin-1/2 Heisenberg model on the pyrochlore lattice is an iconic frustrated three-dimensional spin system with a rich phase diagram. Besides hosting several ordered phases, the…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 1 cited

Kinetic samplers for neural quantum states

Andrey A. Bagrov, Askar A. Iliasov, Tom Westerhout

Neural quantum states (NQS) are a novel class of variational many-body wave functions that are very flexible in approximating diverse quantum states. Optimization of an NQS ansatz…

cond-mat.dis-nn2019★ 135 cited

Neural Quantum States of frustrated magnets: generalization and sign structure

Tom Westerhout, Nikita Astrakhantsev, Konstantin S. Tikhonov +2

Neural quantum states (NQS) attract a lot of attention due to their potential to serve as a very expressive variational ansatz for quantum many-body systems. Here we study the main…

quant-ph2019★ 121 cited

NetKet: A Machine Learning Toolkit for Many-Body Quantum Systems

Giuseppe Carleo, Kenny Choo, Damian Hofmann +15

We introduce NetKet, a comprehensive open source framework for the study of many-body quantum systems using machine learning techniques. The framework is built around a general and…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 46 cited

Plasmon confinement in fractal quantum systems

Tom Westerhout, Edo van Veen, Mikhail I. Katsnelson +1

Recent progress in the fabrication of materials has made it possible to create arbitrary non-periodic two-dimensional structures in the quantum plasmon regime. This paves the way f…