In this paper, we apply machine learning methods to study phase transitions in certain statistical mechanical models on the two dimensional lattices, whose transitions involve non-local or topological properties, including site and bond percolations, the XY model and the generalized XY model. We find that using just one hidden layer in a fully-connected neural network, the percolation transition can be learned and the data collapse by using the average output layer gives correct estimate of the critical exponent ν. We also study the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, which involves binding and unbinding of topological defects-vortices and anti-vortices, in the classical XY model. The generalized XY model contains richer phases, such as the nematic phase, the paramagnetic and the quasi-long-range ferromagnetic phases, and we also apply machine learning method to it. We obtain a consistent phase diagram from the network trained with only data along the temperature axis at two particular parameter ∆ values, where ∆ is the relative weight of pure XY coupling. Besides using the spin configurations (either angles or spin components) as the input information in a convolutional neural network, we devise a feature engineering approach using the histograms of the spin orientations in order to train the network to learn the three phases in the generalized XY model and demonstrate that it indeed works. The trained network by using system size L × L can be used to the phase diagram for other sizes (L ′ × L ′ , where L ′ = L) without any further training.

We study the (pseudo-) anyon Hubbard model on a one-dimensional lattice without the presence of a three-body hardcore constraint. In particular, for the pseudo-fermion limit of a large statistical angle θ ≈ π , we observe a wealth of exotic properties, including a first-order transition between different superfluid phases and a twocomponent partially paired phase for large fillings without need of an additional three-body hardcore constraint.In this limit, we analyze the effect of an induced hardcore constraint, which leads to the stabilization of superfluid ground states for vanishing or even small attractive onsite interactions. For finite statistical angles, we study the unconventional broken-symmetry superfluid peaked at a finite momentum, resulting in an interesting beat phenomenon of single-particle correlation functions. We show how some features of various ground-state phases, including an analog of the partially paired phase in the pseudo-fermion limit, may be reproduced in a naive mean field frame.

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