Ab-initio Quantum Transport with the GW Approximation, 42,240 Atoms, and Sustained Exascale Performance

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Main Authors: Vetsch, Nicolas, Maeder, Alexander, Maillou, Vincent, Winka, Anders, Cao, Jiang, Kwasniewski, Grzegorz, Deuschle, Leonard, Hoefler, Torsten, Ziogas, Alexandros Nikolaos, Luisier, Mathieu
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author Vetsch, Nicolas
Maeder, Alexander
Maillou, Vincent
Winka, Anders
Cao, Jiang
Kwasniewski, Grzegorz
Deuschle, Leonard
Hoefler, Torsten
Ziogas, Alexandros Nikolaos
Luisier, Mathieu
author_facet Vetsch, Nicolas
Maeder, Alexander
Maillou, Vincent
Winka, Anders
Cao, Jiang
Kwasniewski, Grzegorz
Deuschle, Leonard
Hoefler, Torsten
Ziogas, Alexandros Nikolaos
Luisier, Mathieu
contents Designing nanoscale electronic devices such as the currently manufactured nanoribbon field-effect transistors (NRFETs) requires advanced modeling tools capturing all relevant quantum mechanical effects. State-of-the-art approaches combine the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism and density functional theory (DFT). However, as device dimensions do not exceed a few nanometers anymore, electrons are confined in ultra-small volumes, giving rise to strong electron-electron interactions. To account for these critical effects, DFT+NEGF solvers should be extended with the GW approximation, which massively increases their computational intensity. Here, we present the first implementation of the NEGF+GW scheme capable of handling NRFET geometries with dimensions comparable to experiments. This package, called QuaTrEx, makes use of a novel spatial domain decomposition scheme, can treat devices made of up to 84,480 atoms, scales very well on the Alps and Frontier supercomputers (>80% weak scaling efficiency), and sustains an exascale FP64 performance on 42,240 atoms (1.15 Eflop/s).
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spellingShingle Ab-initio Quantum Transport with the GW Approximation, 42,240 Atoms, and Sustained Exascale Performance
Vetsch, Nicolas
Maeder, Alexander
Maillou, Vincent
Winka, Anders
Cao, Jiang
Kwasniewski, Grzegorz
Deuschle, Leonard
Hoefler, Torsten
Ziogas, Alexandros Nikolaos
Luisier, Mathieu
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Designing nanoscale electronic devices such as the currently manufactured nanoribbon field-effect transistors (NRFETs) requires advanced modeling tools capturing all relevant quantum mechanical effects. State-of-the-art approaches combine the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism and density functional theory (DFT). However, as device dimensions do not exceed a few nanometers anymore, electrons are confined in ultra-small volumes, giving rise to strong electron-electron interactions. To account for these critical effects, DFT+NEGF solvers should be extended with the GW approximation, which massively increases their computational intensity. Here, we present the first implementation of the NEGF+GW scheme capable of handling NRFET geometries with dimensions comparable to experiments. This package, called QuaTrEx, makes use of a novel spatial domain decomposition scheme, can treat devices made of up to 84,480 atoms, scales very well on the Alps and Frontier supercomputers (>80% weak scaling efficiency), and sustains an exascale FP64 performance on 42,240 atoms (1.15 Eflop/s).
title Ab-initio Quantum Transport with the GW Approximation, 42,240 Atoms, and Sustained Exascale Performance
topic Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19138