用对称性指导神经网络,揭示核质量规律中的物理本质
Bridging Ab Initio Symmetries and Global Nuclear Masses with Interpretable Neural Networks

- 基于SU(3)/SU(4)对称性构造可解释神经网络模型
- WINN模型验证误差低至0.430 MeV,媲美顶尖模型
- 发现中子滴线附近对称性增强与超重区新效应
从轻到中等质量核的阿贝里奥建模已确立威格纳的SU(4)和埃利奥特的SU(3)为核力主导对称性。本文探讨这些对称性是否在全核素表上主导结合能规律。目标非高精度预测,而是通过可解释、基于对称性的模型获得物理洞见。基于SU(3)和SU(4)的卡西米尔算符,构建三种神经网络质量模型:用于点预测的特征引导神经网络(FINN),加入不确定性量化的高斯引导神经网络(GINN),以及以卡西米尔算符为算符基的威格纳引导神经网络(WINN)——一种质量公式。所有模型均在AME2016上训练,并在新纳入AME2020的核素上验证。仅使用SU(4)算符,训练和测试数据的均方根误差(RMSE)即降低近一半,外推数据也下降约五分之一,相对液滴模型显示威格纳对称性蕴含超越整体性质的预测信息。尽管形式紧凑,WINN达到最低验证RMSE 0.430 MeV,与当前最优模型相当,此结果更体现其对称性基捕捉重要物理的潜力。此外,WINN揭示:(i) 中子滴线附近二次型SU(4)卡西米尔增强,暗示威格纳对称性恢复;(ii) 超重区四次型算符出现意外增益。由此,我们把涌现对称性从单个核的隐含秩序,提升为整个核素表的支配原则。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Ab initio modeling has established Wigner's SU(4) and Elliott's SU(3) as dominant symmetries of the nuclear force in light and intermediate-mass nuclei. We ask whether they also govern nuclear binding across the entire chart. Our aim is not high-precision prediction but physical insight, through interpretable, symmetry-based models. From the SU(3) and SU(4) Casimir operators we construct three neural-network (NN) mass models: Feature-Informed NN (FINN) for point predictions, Gaussian-Informed NN (GINN) adding uncertainty quantification, and Wigner-Informed NN (WINN) -- a mass formula using the Casimirs as an operator basis. All are trained on AME2016 and validated on nuclei new to AME2020. The SU(4) operators alone cut the root-mean-square error (RMSE) by nearly half on train and test data, and by about a fifth on extrapolation, relative to the liquid-drop baseline -- showing that Wigner's symmetry carries predictive information beyond bulk properties. Despite its compact form, WINN reaches the lowest validation RMSE, 0.430 MeV -- competitive with state-of-the-art mass models -- which we read less as a benchmark than as evidence that its symmetry basis captures important physics. WINN further reveals i) an enhancement of the quadratic SU(4) Casimir near the neutron dripline, signaling restoration of Wigner's symmetry, and ii) an unexpected gain of the quartic operator in the superheavy region. We thereby elevate emergent symmetries from the hidden order within individual nuclei to a governing principle of the whole nuclear chart.
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