Calculating strongly correlated ground states from the non-Markovian dissipative dynamics of Gaussian fermions
Abstract
We introduce a mapping between the ground state of interacting fermionic Hamiltonians and the non-equilibrium steady state of a purely dissipative open quantum system. Within the framework of third quantization, we map the Fermi-Hubbard Hamiltonian onto Lindblad jump operators acting on Majorana fermions. Remarkably, both hopping and interaction terms map onto jump operators that preserve the Gaussianity of Majorana fermions along individual quantum trajectories. As a result, the dynamics can be unravelled and each trajectory can be simulated efficiently using only two-point correlation functions, with a computational cost that scales polynomially with system size. We further show that finite particle number requires negative dissipative rates, leading to an intrinsically non-Markovian dynamics. The corresponding trajectory unravelling involves both positive and negative stochastic weights and exhibits a sign problem and large fluctuations, so that convergence requires an exponentially large number of trajectories. The overall computational cost remains exponential in system size despite the efficient Gaussian representation of individual trajectories, but is crucially dependent on the computational complexity of the non-Markovian unravelling, motivating further studies on the efficiency of such unravellings.
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BibTeX
@misc{chiriaco2026calculating,
title = {{Calculating strongly correlated ground states from the non-Markovian dissipative dynamics of Gaussian fermions}},
author = {Giuliano Chiriacò},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2607.06293},
eprint = {2607.06293},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.06293},
note = {CC BY-NC-ND 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Calculating strongly correlated ground states from the non-Markovian dissipative dynamics of Gaussian fermions
AU - Giuliano Chiriacò
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/15
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2607.06293
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.06293
AB - We introduce a mapping between the ground state of interacting fermionic Hamiltonians and the non-equilibrium steady state of a purely dissipative open quantum system. Within the framework of third quantization, we map the Fermi-Hubbard Hamiltonian onto Lindblad jump operators acting on Majorana fermions. Remarkably, both hopping and interaction terms map onto jump operators that preserve the Gaussianity of Majorana fermions along individual quantum trajectories. As a result, the dynamics can be unravelled and each trajectory can be simulated efficiently using only two-point correlation functions, with a computational cost that scales polynomially with system size. We further show that finite particle number requires negative dissipative rates, leading to an intrinsically non-Markovian dynamics. The corresponding trajectory unravelling involves both positive and negative stochastic weights and exhibits a sign problem and large fluctuations, so that convergence requires an exponentially large number of trajectories. The overall computational cost remains exponential in system size despite the efficient Gaussian representation of individual trajectories, but is crucially dependent on the computational complexity of the non-Markovian unravelling, motivating further studies on the efficiency of such unravellings.
ER -