Learning thermodynamics and topological order of the 2D XY model with generative real-valued restricted Boltzmann machines

2024/09/30 by Kai Zhang, Zhang, Kai
Physics and Astronomy · Computer Science · #Model Reduction and Neural Networks #Neural Networks and Applications #Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2409.20377

Abstract

Detecting the topological Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) transition in the prototypical 2D XY model using unsupervised machine learning methods has long been a challenging problem due to the lack of suitable order parameters. To address this issue, we begin with a conventional real-valued RBM (RBM-xy), which uses exponential conditional probabilities to generate visible units. We then develop a novel real-valued RBM (RBM-CosSin) featuring nonlinear cos/sin activation, whose visible units follow the von Mises distribution. Our findings reveal that RBM-CosSin effectively learns the underlying Boltzmann distribution of 2D XY systems and generate authentic XY configurations that accurately capture both thermodynamics and topological order (vortex). Furthermore, we demonstrate that it is possible to extract phase transition information, including the KT transition, from the weight matrices without relying on prior physics knowledge.

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