Completely Positive and Trace Preserving Schemes with Tensor Train Compression for the Lindblad Equation

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Main Authors: DelMastro, Peter, Appelö, Daniel, Cheng, Yingda
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author DelMastro, Peter
Appelö, Daniel
Cheng, Yingda
author_facet DelMastro, Peter
Appelö, Daniel
Cheng, Yingda
contents We propose a family of low-rank, completely positive and trace preserving schemes for the Lindblad equation, a common model for open quantum systems. Low-rank representation is employed at two levels: the density matrix is factorized into the product of tall-skinny matrices, and the columns of these matrices are further represented using the tensor train (TT) format, also know as matrix product states (MPS). This two-level low-rank format fits naturally into our existing Kraus is King scheme (arXiv:2409.08898v2 [math.NA]) for the Lindblad equation, whose underlying operations are arithmetic on the columns of the tall-skinny matrices. We show how these operations can be performed efficiently in the TT/MPS format, with particular emphasis on density matrix rank-truncation. We conclude with extensive numerical experiments demonstrating the convergence of this scheme and its efficiency in simulating systems with up to $10^{19}$ degrees of freedom using only modest compute resources.
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spellingShingle Completely Positive and Trace Preserving Schemes with Tensor Train Compression for the Lindblad Equation
DelMastro, Peter
Appelö, Daniel
Cheng, Yingda
Numerical Analysis
Quantum Physics
65L99, 15A69, 81Q99
We propose a family of low-rank, completely positive and trace preserving schemes for the Lindblad equation, a common model for open quantum systems. Low-rank representation is employed at two levels: the density matrix is factorized into the product of tall-skinny matrices, and the columns of these matrices are further represented using the tensor train (TT) format, also know as matrix product states (MPS). This two-level low-rank format fits naturally into our existing Kraus is King scheme (arXiv:2409.08898v2 [math.NA]) for the Lindblad equation, whose underlying operations are arithmetic on the columns of the tall-skinny matrices. We show how these operations can be performed efficiently in the TT/MPS format, with particular emphasis on density matrix rank-truncation. We conclude with extensive numerical experiments demonstrating the convergence of this scheme and its efficiency in simulating systems with up to $10^{19}$ degrees of freedom using only modest compute resources.
title Completely Positive and Trace Preserving Schemes with Tensor Train Compression for the Lindblad Equation
topic Numerical Analysis
Quantum Physics
65L99, 15A69, 81Q99
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01494