Physics-informed neural networks and beyond: enforcing physical constraints in quantum dissipative dynamics†

Abstract

Neural networks (NNs) accelerate simulations of quantum dissipative dynamics. Ensuring that these simulations adhere to fundamental physical laws is crucial, but has been largely ignored in the state-of-the-art NN approaches. We show that this may lead to implausible results measured by violation of the trace conservation. To recover the correct physical behavior, we develop physics-informed NNs (PINNs) that mitigate the violations to a good extent. Beyond that, we propose a novel uncertainty-aware approach that enforces perfect trace conservation by design, surpassing PINNs.