Quantum many-body simulations with PauliStrings.jl
Nicolas Loizeau, J. Clayton Peacock, Dries Sels
SciPost Phys. Codebases 54 (2025) · published 24 March 2025
- doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhysCodeb.54
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Abstract
We present the Julia package PauliStrings.jl for quantum many-body simulations, which performs fast operations on the Pauli group by encoding Pauli strings in binary. All of the Pauli string algebra is encoded into low-level logic operations on integers, and is made efficient by various truncation methods which allow for systematic extrapolation of the results. We illustrate the effectiveness of our package by (i) performing Heisenberg time evolution through direct numerical integration and (ii) by constructing a Liouvillian Krylov space. We benchmark the results against tensor network methods, and we find our package performs favorably. In addition, we show that this representation allows for easy encoding of any geometry. We present results for chaotic and integrable spin systems in 1D as well as some examples in 2D. Currently, the main limitations are the inefficiency of representing non-trivial pure states (or other low-rank operators), as well as the need to introduce dissipation to probe long-time dynamics.
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See all Organizations.- 1 Nicolas Loizeau,
- 2 J. Clayton Peacock,
- 2 3 Dries Sels