Marc Machaczek

PhD Candidate in Computational Physics

University of Augsburg

bio

I'm a PhD student and MQV (Munich Quantum Valley) doctoral fellow supervised by Prof. Markus Heyl at the University of Augsburg. My current research focuses on computational methods to solve problems in quantum many-body physics, in particular neural network quantum states for time evolution. Moreover, I'm interested in pursuing analytical approaches to better understand how neural networks work, especially in the context of physics.

education & research experience

PhD in Computational Physics

2023 - Present · University of Augsburg

I'm researching neural network quantum states and their applications in simulating quantum many-body systems. In particular, I currently focus on time evolution and improving our understanding of such machine learning approaches for quantum physics.

Master's Degree in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

2020 - 2023 · LMU & TU Munich

I specialized on quantum field theory (in condensed matter physics), algebraic topology, probability theory and machine learning. For my thesis project I implemented neural quantum states to investigate fracton models, three-dimensional highly entrangled stabilizer codes with extensive ground state degeneracy. Using a correlation-enhanced RBM, we found exact parametrizations of fracton ground states and mapped out a first-order phase transition in the checkerboard model [Machaczek, Pollet, Liu; Scipost Physics 2025].

Bachelor's Degree in Physics

2016 - 2020 · LMU Munich

I wrote my thesis on the tensorial-kernel support vector machine [Greitemann, Liu, Pollet; PRB 2019], in particular how to process results obtained from this algorithm to automatically detect and interpret phases in frustrated magnetic systems. This led to contributions towards [Rao, Liu, Machaczek, Pollet; PRR 2021].

Research Assistant

05/2022 - 09/2022 · Fraunhofer IKS

I worked on bayesian neural networks to improve uncertainty estimation for medical image classification. In particular, we explored parametrized quantum circuits for weight generation to improve sample efficiency.

Student Assistant

2020 - 2022 · LMU Munich

In the beginning I contributed towards [Rao, Liu, Machaczek, Pollet; PRR 2021] by analyzing results obtained from the tensorial kernel support vector machine. Then, I explored using topological data analysis to classify phases of classical spin systems.