Deep Quantum Geometry of Matrices

• Main Authors: Xizhi Han (韩希之), Sean A. Hartnoll
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: American Physical Society 2020-03-01
• Series: Physical Review X
• Online Access: http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.10.011069

We employ machine learning techniques to provide accurate variational wave functions for matrix quantum mechanics, with multiple bosonic and fermionic matrices. The variational quantum Monte Carlo method is implemented with deep generative flows to search for gauge-invariant low-energy states. The ground state (and also long-lived metastable states) of an SU(N) matrix quantum mechanics with three bosonic matrices, and also its supersymmetric “mini-BMN” extension, are studied as a function of coupling and N. Known semiclassical fuzzy sphere states are recovered, and the collapse of these geometries in more strongly quantum regimes is probed using the variational wave function. We then describe a factorization of the quantum mechanical Hilbert space that corresponds to a spatial partition of the emergent geometry. Under this partition, the fuzzy sphere states show a boundary-law entanglement entropy in the large N limit.