DS1 spectrogram: Quantum Dynamics via Score Matching on Bohmian Trajectories

Quantum Dynamics via Score Matching on Bohmian Trajectories

April 28, 20262604.25137

Authors

Lei Wang

Abstract

We solve the time-dependent Schrödinger equation by learning the score function, the gradient of the log-probability density, on Bohmian trajectories. In Bohm's formulation of quantum mechanics, particles follow deterministic paths under the classical potential supplemented by a quantum potential depending on the score function of the evolving density.

These non-crossing Bohmian trajectories form a continuous normalizing flow governed by the score. We parametrize the score with a neural network and minimize a self-consistent Fisher divergence between the network and the score of the resulting density.

We prove that the zero-loss minimizer of this self-consistent objective recovers Schrödinger dynamics for nodeless wave functions, a condition naturally met in quantum vibrations of atoms. We demonstrate the approach on wavepacket splitting in a double-well potential and anharmonic vibrations of a Morse chain.

By recasting real-time quantum dynamics as a self-consistent score-driven normalizing flow, this framework opens the time-dependent Schrödinger equation to the rapidly advancing toolkit of modern generative modeling.

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