Operator Learning for Schrödinger Equation: Unitarity, Error Bounds, and Time Generalization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18288v1
• Date: Fri, 23 May 2025 18:32:53 GMT
• Title: Operator Learning for Schrödinger Equation: Unitarity, Error Bounds, and Time Generalization
• Authors: Yash Patel, Unique Subedi, Ambuj Tewari,
• Abstract summary: We consider the problem of learning the evolution operator for the time-dependent Schr"odinger equation.<n>Existing neural network-based surrogates often ignore fundamental properties of the Schr"odinger equation.<n>We introduce a linear estimator for the evolution operator that preserves a weak form of unitarity.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We consider the problem of learning the evolution operator for the time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation, where the Hamiltonian may vary with time. Existing neural network-based surrogates often ignore fundamental properties of the Schr\"{o}dinger equation, such as linearity and unitarity, and lack theoretical guarantees on prediction error or time generalization. To address this, we introduce a linear estimator for the evolution operator that preserves a weak form of unitarity. We establish both upper and lower bounds on the prediction error that hold uniformly over all sufficiently smooth initial wave functions. Additionally, we derive time generalization bounds that quantify how the estimator extrapolates beyond the time points seen during training. Experiments across real-world Hamiltonians -- including hydrogen atoms, ion traps for qubit design, and optical lattices -- show that our estimator achieves relative errors $10^{-2}$ to $10^{-3}$ times smaller than state-of-the-art methods such as the Fourier Neural Operator and DeepONet.

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