Unsupervised Machine Learning for Experimental Detection of Quantum-Many-Body Phase Transitions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.01091v1
• Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2025 21:25:47 GMT
• Title: Unsupervised Machine Learning for Experimental Detection of Quantum-Many-Body Phase Transitions
• Authors: Ron Ziv, David Wei, Antonio Rubio-Abadal, Daniel Adler, Anna Keselman, Eran Lustig, Ronen Talmon, Johannes Zeiher, Immanuel Bloch, Mordechai Segev,
• Abstract summary: We present an unsupervised machine learning approach to study quantum many-body (QMB) experiments.<n>We show that it reveals collective phenomena from the very partial experimental data and without any model-specific prior knowledge of the system.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Quantum many-body (QMB) systems are generally computationally hard: the computing resources necessary to simulate them exactly can often exceed the existing computation resources by orders of magnitude. For this reason, Richard Feynman proposed the concept of a quantum simulator: quantum systems engineered to obey a prescribed evolution equation and repeating the experiment multiple times. Experimentally, however, as we explain below, the vast majority of observables describing the system are inaccessible. Thus, while Feynman's idea addresses the problem of simulating quantum dynamics, it leaves unsolved the equally fundamental problem of inferring the underlying physics from the limited observables accessible in experiments. Indeed, many complex phenomena associated with QMB systems remain elusive. Perhaps, the most important example is identifying phase transitions in QMB systems when no simple order-parameter exists, which poses major challenges to this day. Complicating the problem further is the fact that, in most cases, it is impossible to learn from numerical simulations, as the underlying systems are often too large to be computable, and small QMB can show strong finite size effects, masking the presence of the transition. Here, we present an unsupervised machine learning approach to study QMB experiments, specifically aimed at detecting phase transitions and crossovers directly from raw experimental measurements. We demonstrate our methodology on systems undergoing Many-Body Localization cross-over and Mott-to-Superfluid phase-transition, showing that it reveals collective phenomena from the very partial experimental data and without any model-specific prior knowledge of the system. This approach offers a general and scalable route for data-driven discovery of emergent phenomena in complex quantum many-body systems.

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