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Quantum many-body simulations with PauliStrings.jl
by Nicolas Loizeau, J. Clayton Peacock, Dries Sels
Submission summary
| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Nicolas Loizeau |
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| Preprint Link: | scipost_202410_00034v1 (pdf) |
| Code repository: | https://github.com/nicolasloizeau/PauliStrings.jl |
| Date submitted: | 2024-10-14 23:17 |
| Submitted by: | Loizeau, Nicolas |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics Codebases |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approaches: | Theoretical, Computational |
Abstract
We present the Julia module 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 module 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 module 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.