Adaptive Kink Filtration: Achieving Asymptotic Size-Independence of Path Integral Simulations Utilizing the Locality of Interactions

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contents Recent method developments involving path integral simulations have come a long way in making these techniques practical for studying condensed phase non-equilibrium phenomena. One of the main difficulties that still needs to be surmounted is the scaling of the algorithms with the system dimensionality. The majority of recent techniques have only changed the order of this scaling (going from exponential to possibly a very high ordered polynomial) and not eased the dependence on the system size. In this current work, we introduce an adaptive kink filtration technique for path generation approach that leverages the locality of the interactions present in the system and the consequent sparsity of the propagator matrix to remove the asymptotic size dependence of the simulations for the propagation of reduced density matrices. This enables the simulation of larger systems at a significantly reduced cost. This technique can be used both for simulation of non-equilibrium dynamics and for equilibrium correlation functions, and is demonstrated here using examples from both -- simulating the excitonic dynamics in bacteriochlorophyll chains and their absorption and emission spectra. We show that the cost becomes constant with the dimensionality of the system. The only place where a system size-dependence still remains is the calculation of the dynamical maps or propagators which are important for the transfer tensor method. The cost of calculating this solvent-renormalized propagator is the same as the cost of propagating all the elements of the reduced density matrix, which scales as the square of the size. This adaptive kink-filtration technique promises to be instrumental in extending the affordability of path integral simulations for very large systems.
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Bose, Amartya
Chemical Physics
Recent method developments involving path integral simulations have come a long way in making these techniques practical for studying condensed phase non-equilibrium phenomena. One of the main difficulties that still needs to be surmounted is the scaling of the algorithms with the system dimensionality. The majority of recent techniques have only changed the order of this scaling (going from exponential to possibly a very high ordered polynomial) and not eased the dependence on the system size. In this current work, we introduce an adaptive kink filtration technique for path generation approach that leverages the locality of the interactions present in the system and the consequent sparsity of the propagator matrix to remove the asymptotic size dependence of the simulations for the propagation of reduced density matrices. This enables the simulation of larger systems at a significantly reduced cost. This technique can be used both for simulation of non-equilibrium dynamics and for equilibrium correlation functions, and is demonstrated here using examples from both -- simulating the excitonic dynamics in bacteriochlorophyll chains and their absorption and emission spectra. We show that the cost becomes constant with the dimensionality of the system. The only place where a system size-dependence still remains is the calculation of the dynamical maps or propagators which are important for the transfer tensor method. The cost of calculating this solvent-renormalized propagator is the same as the cost of propagating all the elements of the reduced density matrix, which scales as the square of the size. This adaptive kink-filtration technique promises to be instrumental in extending the affordability of path integral simulations for very large systems.
title Adaptive Kink Filtration: Achieving Asymptotic Size-Independence of Path Integral Simulations Utilizing the Locality of Interactions
topic Chemical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14695