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# Approximate diagonalization method for large-scale Hamiltonians

(Impact Factor: 2.81). 02/2012; 86(5). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.86.052314
Source: arXiv

ABSTRACT

An approximate diagonalization method is proposed that combines exact
diagonalization and perturbation expansion to calculate low energy eigenvalues
and eigenfunctions of a Hamiltonian. The method involves deriving an effective
Hamiltonian for each eigenvalue to be calculated, using perturbation expansion,
and extracting the eigenvalue from the diagonalization of the effective
Hamiltonian. The size of the effective Hamiltonian can be significantly smaller
than that of the original Hamiltonian, hence the diagonalization can be done
much faster. We compare the results of our method with those obtained using
exact diagonalization and quantum Monte Carlo calculation for random problem
instances with up to 128 qubits.

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• "Finally an important motivation of the current work is the presentation of precise numerical data for the energy gap at the quantum transition, which can be confronted to other approaches that deal with quantum search complexity. These include the semi-perturbative evaluation of the quantum energy gap [28], Quantum Monte Carlo annealing [11] [29] [15] [30] as well as annealing studies under Schrödinger wave function dynamics [31] [32]. We expect that algorithmic studies e.g. "
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