Are Generic Parallel Algorithms Feasible for Quantum Lattice Models?

Abstract

The investigation of strong quantum effects is one of the major research areas in physics with important application aspects, like the high temperature superconductors. The only reliable approaches to these systems are large scale numerical simulations, made difficult by the exponential scaling of most algorithms. We present efforts in developing a generic and parallel program package for the simulation of such systems using generic programming techniques of the C++ language, including expression template techniques for quantum operators.