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$TimeEvolver$: A Program for Time Evolution With Improved Error Bound (2205.15346v1)

Published 30 May 2022 in quant-ph, cs.NA, hep-th, math.NA, and physics.comp-ph

Abstract: We present $TimeEvolver$, a program for computing time evolution in a generic quantum system. It relies on well-known Krylov subspace techniques to tackle the problem of multiplying the exponential of a large sparse matrix $i H$, where $H$ is the Hamiltonian, with an initial vector $v$. The fact that $H$ is Hermitian makes it possible to provide an easily computable bound on the accuracy of the Krylov approximation. Apart from effects of numerical roundoff, the resulting a posteriori error bound is rigorous, which represents a crucial novelty as compared to existing software packages such as $Expokit$ (R. Sidje, ACM Trans. Math. Softw. 24 (1) 1998). On a standard notebook, $TimeEvolver$ allows to compute time evolution with adjustable precision in Hilbert spaces of dimension greater than $106$. Additionally, we provide routines for deriving the matrix $H$ from a more abstract representation of the Hamiltonian operator.

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