Parallel density matrix propagation in spin dynamics simulations

Luke J. Edwards; Ilya Kuprov

doi:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3679656

Parallel density matrix propagation in spin dynamics simulations

Luke J. Edwards, Ilya Kuprov

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Abstract

Several methods for density matrix propagation in parallel computing environments are proposed and evaluated. It is demonstrated that the large communication overhead associated with each propagation step (two-sided multiplication of the density matrix by an exponential propagator and its conjugate) may be avoided and the simulation recast in a form that requires virtually no inter-thread communication. Good scaling is demonstrated on a 128-core (16 nodes, 8 cores each) cluster.

Original language	English
Article number	044108
Journal	Journal of Chemical Physics
Volume	136
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3679656
State	Published - 28 Jan 2012
Externally published	Yes

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General Physics and Astronomy
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

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