Selected Stabilizer Subspaces for Compact Many-Body Wave Functions
Abstract
Selected configuration interaction (SCI) obtains accurate many-body solutions by variationally diagonalising the Hamiltonian in a sparse, iteratively selected set of configurations, but can lose compactness when the target state has broad configurational support. We introduce selected stabilizer interaction (SSI), a fully classical, SCI-inspired method that instead iteratively constructs a nonorthogonal subspace spanned by a systematically enlargeable set of selected stabilizer states. A single stabilizer, generated by Clifford operations, can encode a structured superposition of (possibly exponentially) many configurations, shifting the relevant compression from configurational to stabilizer sparsity. We benchmark ground-state energies, fidelities, superposition degrees and required expansion lengths against exact diagonalization and equivalent SCI schemes for the transverse-field Ising, XXZ Heisenberg, and Hubbard models, finding particularly strong compression from the stabilizer representation in the spin models, and increasing advantage with system size for these systems. The results establish a proof of principle for heuristic selected stabilizer diagonalization, while also identifying particular challenges in symmetry handling and effective exploration of the stabilizer space.
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BibTeX
@misc{filip2026selected,
title = {{Selected Stabilizer Subspaces for Compact Many-Body Wave Functions}},
author = {Maria-Andreea Filip and George H. Booth},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.21907},
eprint = {2610.21907},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.21907},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Selected Stabilizer Subspaces for Compact Many-Body Wave Functions
AU - Maria-Andreea Filip
AU - George H. Booth
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/15
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.21907
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.21907
AB - Selected configuration interaction (SCI) obtains accurate many-body solutions by variationally diagonalising the Hamiltonian in a sparse, iteratively selected set of configurations, but can lose compactness when the target state has broad configurational support. We introduce selected stabilizer interaction (SSI), a fully classical, SCI-inspired method that instead iteratively constructs a nonorthogonal subspace spanned by a systematically enlargeable set of selected stabilizer states. A single stabilizer, generated by Clifford operations, can encode a structured superposition of (possibly exponentially) many configurations, shifting the relevant compression from configurational to stabilizer sparsity. We benchmark ground-state energies, fidelities, superposition degrees and required expansion lengths against exact diagonalization and equivalent SCI schemes for the transverse-field Ising, XXZ Heisenberg, and Hubbard models, finding particularly strong compression from the stabilizer representation in the spin models, and increasing advantage with system size for these systems. The results establish a proof of principle for heuristic selected stabilizer diagonalization, while also identifying particular challenges in symmetry handling and effective exploration of the stabilizer space.
ER -