Exact Diagonalization at the Petaflop Scale

Exact diagonalization (ED) is an unbiased and versatile method to study a large variety of quantum many-body systems, ranging from quantum chemistry and nuclear structure calculations to correlated systems in condensed matter physics and ultracold atomic gases. In the first funding period of this project within the research unit 1807 we have successfully developed a flexible message-passing interface (MPI) based parallel exact diagonalization code for quantum spin models. We have applied this and related codes to several current problems in frustrated quantum magnetism and correlated fermions, and started an activity on energy spectroscopy of quantum critical points in 2+1 space- time dimensions. The purpose of this project in the next funding period is to further develop and apply a state-of-the-art ED framework for quantum spin and fermionic lattice models, and in a second step also for simple quantum field theories.