Exploration of the QCD phase diagram and critical point is one of the main goals in current relativistic heavy-ion collisions.The QCD critical point is expected to belong to a three-dimensional(3D)Ising universality c...Exploration of the QCD phase diagram and critical point is one of the main goals in current relativistic heavy-ion collisions.The QCD critical point is expected to belong to a three-dimensional(3D)Ising universality class.Machine learning techniques are found to be powerful in distinguishing different phases of matter and provide a new way to study the phase diagram.We investigate phase transitions in the 3D cubic Ising model using supervised learning methods.It is found that a 3D convolutional neural network can be trained to effectively predict physical quantities in different spin configurations.With a uniform neural network architecture,it can encode phases of matter and identify both second-and first-order phase transitions.The important features that discriminate different phases in the classification processes are investigated.These findings can help study and understand QCD phase transitions in relativistic heavy-ion collisions.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(12275102)the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2022YFA1604900)。
文摘Exploration of the QCD phase diagram and critical point is one of the main goals in current relativistic heavy-ion collisions.The QCD critical point is expected to belong to a three-dimensional(3D)Ising universality class.Machine learning techniques are found to be powerful in distinguishing different phases of matter and provide a new way to study the phase diagram.We investigate phase transitions in the 3D cubic Ising model using supervised learning methods.It is found that a 3D convolutional neural network can be trained to effectively predict physical quantities in different spin configurations.With a uniform neural network architecture,it can encode phases of matter and identify both second-and first-order phase transitions.The important features that discriminate different phases in the classification processes are investigated.These findings can help study and understand QCD phase transitions in relativistic heavy-ion collisions.
