superspinsim 0.3.0

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SuperSpinsim

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A general, GPU-based simulator, optimised for time-dependent spin systems. We were motivated by the ability to quickly simulate highly time-dependent quantum sensing protocols for the seven-level spin and optical model of the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) colour centre in diamond. However, the dynamics of general atomic and defect systems are able to be simulated as well.

A simulated NV contrast experiment (fully-rendered microwave pulse):

A simulated NV optically-detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) sweep (fully-rendered microwave frequency sweep, and fully simulated optical dynamics):

Project status

SuperSpinsim is a work-in-progress.

The simulator is currently functional. There may still be some edge cases that cause errors; please let us know here if any are found.

There are a few features related to efficient representation of states/processes that we want to add which are not fully-implemented yet:

• Compressed, equivalence class representations of systems which have subspaces of states unaffected by the equations of motion.
  • Experimental feature; implemented but not fully tested.
• Efficient calculation of purely unitary dynamics.

We will submit a manuscript for review when the above are implemented.

There are some further features which are thinking about adding, possibly after the manuscript is submitted:

• Support to split the problem over multiple GPUs, rather than just one.
• Support for running the algorithm on (SIMD operations on) a CPU.

Installation

SuperSpinsim is built on top of number.cuda, which means it has similar system requirements:

• An Nvidia GPU capable of cuda.
  • Meaning AMD, Apple, and Intel GPUs are not currently supported.
• Official Nvidia graphics drivers.
• The Nvidia cuda toolkit
  • An installer can be downloaded directly, or it can be installed from a package manager like conda or pacman.
• Python versions 3.11 to 3.13 only.
  • Meaning python version 3.14 is not currently supported.

If all of these are satisfied, then SuperSpinsim can be installed from the Python Package Index (PyPI),

uv add superspinsim       # If using the uv package manager
pip install superspinsim  # If using the pip package manager

From source

SuperSpinsim can be built from source using the uv package manager.

git clone https://github.com/monashNV/superspinsim.git
cd superspinsim
uv build

SuperSpinsim can also be installed into another project without being built using the uv package manager.

mkdir other-project
git clone https://github.com/monashNV/superspinsim.git
cd other-project
uv init
uv add ../superspinsim

Version log

0.3.0

Public release.

0.2.0

Implementing equivalence classes.

0.1.1

Fixed bug in undefined zfs_generator in generate_generators.

0.1.0

First usable; private.