Parallel density matrix propagation in spin dynamics simulations.
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.
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Luke J
LJ
Edwards
Ilya
I
Kuprov