Billion-Scale Quantum Darwinism: Matrix-Free von Neumann Entropy Estimation via FP8 Ozaki Scheme on NVIDIA Blackwell
We present the first integration of the Ozaki error-free transformation with FP8 Tensor Core acceleration for matrix-free von Neumann entropy estimation in a quantum many-body simulation. Our application is Quantum Darwinism on a scrambled Spin-Star model: a one-qubit system entangled with 32 environment qubits whose S_32 permutation symmetry is deliberately destroyed by heterogeneous disorder coupling and a three-layer 1D brick-wall scrambling circuit. This construction forces the simulation into the full 2^33 = 8.59 × 10^9 -dimensional Hilbert space, precluding both the Dicke-subspace shortcut and tensor-network compression. Entropy is estimated via Stochastic Lanczos Quadrature (SLQ) with N_v = 100 Hutchinson probe vectors and m = 40 Lanczos steps, never materializing the 2^32 × 2^32 reduced density matrix. The dominant partial-trace matrix-vector kernel is accelerated with torch._scaled_mm, targeting native FP8 E4M3 Tensor Cores of a single NVIDIA B300 SXM6 AC GPU (288 GB HBM3e). The FP8 Ozaki 2-slice configuration achieves a 7.54× speedup over an FP32 baseline while incurring only 6.97% pure quantization error—isolated from statistical variance by a shared Hutchinson seed—outperforming both naive FP8 (8.99×, 12.90%) and the 3-slice variant (5.63×, 13.82%). Physical correctness is validated to 0.007% relative error by exact recovery of the Quantum Darwinism saturation identity I(S:F)|_f=1 = 2H(S). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work at the intersection of FP8 Ozaki emulation, matrix-free SLQ, and quantum entropy estimation at billion-dimensional scale.
Authors
- Dang Khoa Nguyen
Institutions
- HUTECH University
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-07-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21651356
- Primary Topic
- Quantum many-body systems
- Type
- preprint