Machine Learning the Strong Disorder Renormalization Group Method for Disordered Quantum Spin Chains
cond-mat.dis-nn, cond-mat.stat-mech, quant-ph
Submitted: 2026-03-05
Updated: 2026-03-05
Comments: 13 pages, 9 figures
Journal ref: Machine Learning in Science and Technology. 7, 045052 (2026)
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: We train machine learning algorithms to infer the entanglement structure of disordered long-range interacting quantum spin chains by learning from the strong disorder renormalisation group (SDRG)
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Abstract
We train machine learning algorithms to infer the entanglement structure of disordered long-range interacting quantum spin chains by learning from the strong disorder renormalisation group (SDRG) method. The system consists of S=1/2-quantum spins coupled by antiferromagnetic power-law interactions with decay exponent α at random positions on a one-dimensional chain. Using SDRG as a physics-informed teacher, we compare a Random Forest classifier as a classical baseline with a graph neural network (GNN) that operates directly on the interaction graph and learns a bond-ranking rule mirroring the SDRG decimation policy. The GNN achieves a disorder-averaged pairing accuracy close to one and reproduces the entanglement entropy S in excellent quantitative agreement with SDRG across all subsystem sizes and interaction exponents. RG flow heat maps confirm that the GNN learns the sequential decimation hierarchy rather than merely fitting final-state observables. Finite-temperature entanglement properties are incorporated via the SDRGX framework through a two-stage strategy, using the zero-temperature GNN to generate the RG flow and sampling thermal occupations from the canonical ensemble, yielding results in agreement with both numerical SDRGX and analytical predictions without retraining.
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