Learning spatially structured open quantum dynamics with regional-attention transformers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06871v1
• Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:40:32 GMT
• Title: Learning spatially structured open quantum dynamics with regional-attention transformers
• Authors: Dounan Du, Eden Figueroa,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a regional attention-based neural architecture that learns dynamics of structured open quantum systems.<n>We demonstrate learning on two representative systems: a spatially driven dissipative single qubit and an electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) quantum memory.<n>Results demonstrate that the architecture establishes a general surrogate modeling framework for structured open quantum dynamics.
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• Abstract: Simulating the dynamics of open quantum systems with spatial structure and external control is an important challenge in quantum information science. Classical numerical solvers for such systems require integrating coupled master and field equations, which is computationally demanding for simulation and optimization tasks and often precluding real-time use in network-scale simulations or feedback control. We introduce a regional attention-based neural architecture that learns the spatiotemporal dynamics of structured open quantum systems. The model incorporates translational invariance of physical laws as an inductive bias to achieve scalable complexity, and supports conditioning on time-dependent global control parameters. We demonstrate learning on two representative systems: a driven dissipative single qubit and an electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) quantum memory. The model achieves high predictive fidelity under both in-distribution and out-of-distribution control protocols, and provides substantial acceleration up to three orders of magnitude over numerical solvers. These results demonstrate that the architecture establishes a general surrogate modeling framework for spatially structured open quantum dynamics, with immediate relevance to large-scale quantum network simulation, quantum repeater and protocol design, real-time experimental optimization, and scalable device modeling across diverse light-matter platforms.

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