Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kowalski, Stanislaw, Negre, Christian F. A., Niklasson, Anders M. N., Barros, Kipton, Finkelstein, Joshua
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
Subjects:
Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08523
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866915995938979840
author Kowalski, Stanislaw
Negre, Christian F. A.
Niklasson, Anders M. N.
Barros, Kipton
Finkelstein, Joshua
author_facet Kowalski, Stanislaw
Negre, Christian F. A.
Niklasson, Anders M. N.
Barros, Kipton
Finkelstein, Joshua
contents We present several finite-temperature recursive Fermi-operator expansion schemes based on the second-order spectral projection (SP2) method. Our approach builds on a previous observation that the electronic structure problem, as formulated through a recursive SP2 expansion, can be mapped onto the architecture of a deep neural network. Using this perspective, we generalize SP2 to finite electronic temperatures and construct machine learning models to determine optimized expansion coefficients. These coefficients are trained for a specified chemical potential and electronic temperature and are not available in closed analytical form. However, by employing an appropriate affine rescaling strategy to the Hamiltonian matrix, we eliminate the need to retrain the model during a simulation if the temperature and chemical potential change. Our approach avoids explicit diagonalization and relies solely on highly optimized matrix-matrix multiplication kernels. Compared to state-of-the-art diagonalization, we achieve an order-of-magnitude speedup in the single-particle finite-temperature density matrix calculation for small and moderately sized matrices on modern GPUs and dense matrix multiply units.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2605_08523
institution arXiv
publishDate 2026
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Machine-learned, finite temperature Fermi-operator expansions suitable for GPUs and AI-hardware
Kowalski, Stanislaw
Negre, Christian F. A.
Niklasson, Anders M. N.
Barros, Kipton
Finkelstein, Joshua
Quantum Physics
81-08
J.2
We present several finite-temperature recursive Fermi-operator expansion schemes based on the second-order spectral projection (SP2) method. Our approach builds on a previous observation that the electronic structure problem, as formulated through a recursive SP2 expansion, can be mapped onto the architecture of a deep neural network. Using this perspective, we generalize SP2 to finite electronic temperatures and construct machine learning models to determine optimized expansion coefficients. These coefficients are trained for a specified chemical potential and electronic temperature and are not available in closed analytical form. However, by employing an appropriate affine rescaling strategy to the Hamiltonian matrix, we eliminate the need to retrain the model during a simulation if the temperature and chemical potential change. Our approach avoids explicit diagonalization and relies solely on highly optimized matrix-matrix multiplication kernels. Compared to state-of-the-art diagonalization, we achieve an order-of-magnitude speedup in the single-particle finite-temperature density matrix calculation for small and moderately sized matrices on modern GPUs and dense matrix multiply units.
title Machine-learned, finite temperature Fermi-operator expansions suitable for GPUs and AI-hardware
topic Quantum Physics
81-08
J.2
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08523