Equivalence and Divergence of Imaginary-Time Evolution and Gradient Descent for Gaussian Variational States
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| author | Palan, Yash |
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| contents | Imaginary-time evolution (ITE) is one of the most widely used numerical techniques for obtaining ground states of many-body Hamiltonians. In this work, we compare ITE with gradient descent (GD) within the framework of Gaussian wavefunction ansatze. We show that while ITE and GD are formally equivalent for fermionic systems, GD exhibits consistently faster convergence for bosonic systems, challenging the common assumption of their complete equivalence. |
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| spellingShingle | Equivalence and Divergence of Imaginary-Time Evolution and Gradient Descent for Gaussian Variational States Palan, Yash Quantum Physics Other Condensed Matter Imaginary-time evolution (ITE) is one of the most widely used numerical techniques for obtaining ground states of many-body Hamiltonians. In this work, we compare ITE with gradient descent (GD) within the framework of Gaussian wavefunction ansatze. We show that while ITE and GD are formally equivalent for fermionic systems, GD exhibits consistently faster convergence for bosonic systems, challenging the common assumption of their complete equivalence. |
| title | Equivalence and Divergence of Imaginary-Time Evolution and Gradient Descent for Gaussian Variational States |
| topic | Quantum Physics Other Condensed Matter |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.06364 |