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GINKAKU: Scalable Cosmological Structure Formation Simulation Code and Post-processing Pipeline

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2026-05-28 v1

Abstract

We introduce GINKAKU, a new cosmological NN-body code developed for the Dark Quest II (DQ2) simulation campaign and designed for controlled ensemble production across the cosmological model space required by next-generation galaxy surveys, including massive neutrinos and clustering dark energy. Built on the FDPS framework, GINKAKU couples a TreePM gravity solver with a linear-response treatment of external source terms for components not evolved as NN-body particles, formulated in the NN-body gauge. This design incorporates massive-neutrino perturbations, general-relativistic corrections, early-time radiation perturbations, and dark-energy clustering with non-unit effective sound speed at the linear level, while preserving Newtonian particle dynamics on subhorizon scales. The code is validated through internal convergence studies and cross-comparisons with GADGET, PKDGRAV3, and RAMSES on shared initial conditions: code-to-code differences in the nonlinear power spectrum can be reduced below 1%\sim1\% level by tuning internal accuracy parameters, and we identify a production-grade fiducial setting achieving this control at modest cost. We apply GINKAKU to an initial set of DQ2 production runs -- eight cosmological models with 3,00033,000^3 particles in boxes up to 4h1Gpc4\,h^{-1}\mathrm{Gpc} -- processed by a renewed post-processing pipeline that reduces the inter-resolution spread of the halo mass function to 1%\sim 1\% and includes halo-shape measurements for intrinsic-alignment statistics. The scale-dependent-growth cosmologies reproduce the expected nonlinear signatures of massive neutrinos and clustering dark energy, demonstrating suitability for emulator-scale production. A total matter power spectrum emulator from these runs is presented in an accompanying paper. (abridged)

Cite

@article{arxiv.2605.28581,
  title  = {GINKAKU: Scalable Cosmological Structure Formation Simulation Code and Post-processing Pipeline},
  author = {Takahiro Nishimichi and Satoshi Tanaka and Kohji Yoshikawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.28581},
  year   = {2026}
}

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48 pages, 44 figures