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Finding Exponential Product Formulas of Higher Orders

Mathematical Physics 2011-11-10 v1 Statistical Mechanics math.MP Computational Physics Quantum Physics

Abstract

In the present article, we review a continual effort on generalization of the Trotter formula to higher-order exponential product formulas. The exponential product formula is a good and useful approximant, particularly because it conserves important symmetries of the system dynamics. We focuse on two algorithms of constructing higher-order exponential product formulas. The first is the fractal decomposition, where we construct higher-order formulas recursively. The second is to make use of the quantum analysis, where we compute higher-order correction terms directly. As interludes, we also have described the decomposition of symplectic integrators, the approximation of time-ordered exponentials, and the perturbational composition.

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0506007,
  title  = {Finding Exponential Product Formulas of Higher Orders},
  author = {Naomichi Hatano and Masuo Suzuki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0506007},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

22 pages, 9 figures. To be published in the conference proceedings ''Quantum Annealing and Other Optimization Methods," eds. B.K.Chakrabarti and A.Das (Springer, Heidelberg)