Physics-Informed Neural Networks for One-Dimensional Quantum Well Problems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05367v1
• Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2025 16:18:26 GMT
• Title: Physics-Informed Neural Networks for One-Dimensional Quantum Well Problems
• Authors: Soumyadip Sarkar,
• Abstract summary: We implement physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) to solve the Schr"odinger equation for three quantum potentials.<n>We show that PINNs can learn the ground-state eigenfunctions and eigenvalues for these quantum systems.<n>We conclude that PINNs are a viable approach for quantum eigenvalue problems.
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• Abstract: We implement physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) to solve the time-independent Schr\"odinger equation for three canonical one-dimensional quantum potentials: an infinite square well, a finite square well, and a finite barrier. The PINN models incorporate trial wavefunctions that exactly satisfy boundary conditions (Dirichlet zeros at domain boundaries), and they optimize a loss functional combining the PDE residual with a normalization constraint. For the infinite well, the ground-state energy is known (E = pi^2 in dimensionless units) and held fixed in training, whereas for the finite well and barrier, the eigenenergy is treated as a trainable parameter. We use fully-connected neural networks with smooth activation functions to represent the wavefunction and demonstrate that PINNs can learn the ground-state eigenfunctions and eigenvalues for these quantum systems. The results show that the PINN-predicted wavefunctions closely match analytical solutions or expected behaviors, and the learned eigenenergies converge to known values. We present training logs and convergence of the energy parameter, as well as figures comparing the PINN solutions to exact results. The discussion addresses the performance of PINNs relative to traditional numerical methods, highlighting challenges such as convergence to the correct eigenvalue, sensitivity to initialization, and the difficulty of modeling discontinuous potentials. We also discuss the importance of the normalization term to resolve the scaling ambiguity of the wavefunction. Finally, we conclude that PINNs are a viable approach for quantum eigenvalue problems, and we outline future directions including extensions to higher-dimensional and time-dependent Schr\"odinger equations.

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