Autoregressive Typical Thermal States

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13455v1
• Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 02:20:15 GMT
• Title: Autoregressive Typical Thermal States
• Authors: Tarun Advaith Kumar, Leon Balents, Timothy H. Hsieh, Roger G. Melko,
• Abstract summary: We introduce an autoregressive framework to calculate finite-temperature properties of a quantum system.<n>By comparing our algorithm to exact results for the spin 1/2 quantum XY chain, we demonstrate that autoregressive typical thermal states are capable of accurately calculating thermal observables.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: A variety of generative neural networks recently adopted from machine learning have provided promising strategies for studying quantum matter. In particular, the success of autoregressive models in natural language processing has motivated their use as variational ans\"atze, with the hope that their demonstrated ability to scale will transfer to simulations of quantum many-body systems. In this paper, we introduce an autoregressive framework to calculate finite-temperature properties of a quantum system based on the imaginary-time evolution of an ensemble of pure states. We find that established approaches based on minimally entangled typical thermal states (METTS) have numerical instabilities when an autoregressive recurrent neural network is used as the variational ans\"atz. We show that these instabilities can be mitigated by evolving the initial ensemble states with a unitary operation, along with applying a threshold to curb runaway evolution of ensemble members. By comparing our algorithm to exact results for the spin 1/2 quantum XY chain, we demonstrate that autoregressive typical thermal states are capable of accurately calculating thermal observables.

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