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Quantum simulations of many-body systems offer novel methods for probing the dynamics of the Standard Model and its constituent gauge theories. Extracting low-energy predictions from such simulations rely on formulating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Henry Froland , Dorota M. Grabowska , Zhiyao Li

Discrete simulation methods are efficient tools to investigate the complex behaviors of complex fluids made of either dry granular materials or dilute suspensions. By contrast, materials made of soft and/or concentrated units (emulsions,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-12-18 Pierre Rognon , Cyprien Gay

The prevalence of variational methods in near-term quantum computing makes optimizer choice critical, yet selection is frequently intuition-based. We therefore present a systematic benchmark of eight classical optimization algorithms for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 S. Illésová , V. Novák , T. Bezděk , C. Possel , M. Beseda

We present an immersed boundary method to simulate the creeping motion of a rigid particle in a fluid described by the Stokes equations discretized thanks to a finite element strategy on unfitted meshes, called Phi-FEM, that uses the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-30 Michel Duprez , Vanessa Lleras , Alexei Lozinski

A dynamic iteration scheme for linear differential-algebraic port-Hamil\-tonian systems based on Lions-Mercier-type operator splitting methods is developed. The dynamic iteration is monotone in the sense that the error is decreasing and no…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Andreas Bartel , Michael Günther , Birgit Jacob , Timo Reis

-Molecular simulations allow the study of properties and interactions of molecular systems. This article presents an improved version of the Adaptive Resolution Scheme that links two systems having atomistic (also called fine-grained) and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Iuliana Marin , Virgil Tudose , Anton Hadar , Nicolae Goga , Andrei Doncescu

We present a method for differentiable simulation of soft articulated bodies. Our work enables the integration of differentiable physical dynamics into gradient-based pipelines. We develop a top-down matrix assembly algorithm within…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Yi-Ling Qiao , Junbang Liang , Vladlen Koltun , Ming C. Lin

Hamiltonian learning is a cornerstone for advancing accurate many-body simulations, improving quantum device performance, and enabling quantum-enhanced sensing. Existing readily deployable quantum metrology techniques primarily focus on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Suying Liu , Xiaodi Wu , Murphy Yuezhen Niu

Symplectic integrators are a foundation to the study of dynamical $N$-body phenomena, at scales ranging from from planetary to cosmological. These integrators preserve the Poincar\'e invariants of Hamiltonian dynamics. The $N$-body…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 David M. Hernandez

Due to advances in computer hardware and new algorithms, it is now possible to perform highly accurate many-body simulations of realistic materials with all their intrinsic complications. The success of these simulations leaves us with a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-14 Huihuo Zheng , Hitesh J. Changlani , Kiel T. Williams , Brian Busemeyer , Lucas K. Wagner

Hamiltonian systems are differential equations which describe systems in classical mechanics, plasma physics, and sampling problems. They exhibit many structural properties, such as a lack of attractors and the presence of conservation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Christian Offen , Sina Ober-Blöbaum

Variational algorithms have received significant attention in recent years due to their potential to solve practical problems using noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. A fundamental step of these algorithms is the evaluation of…

In this paper, we propose a unified framework, the Hessian discretisation method (HDM), which is based on four discrete elements (called altogether a Hessian discretisation) and a few intrinsic indicators of accuracy, independent of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-28 Jérôme Droniou , Bishnu P. Lamichhane , Devika Shylaja

For quantum systems with competing potentials, the conventional perturbation theory often yields an asymptotic series and the subsequent numerical outcome becomes uncertain. To tackle such kind of problems, we develop a general solution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 H. Mineo , Sheng D. Chao

The simulation of systems that act on multiple time scales is challenging. A stable integration of the fast dynamics requires a highly accurate approximation whereas for the simulation of the slow part, a coarser approximation is accurate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Sina Ober-Blöbaum , Theresa Wenger , Tobias Gail , Sigrid Leyendecker

This paper derives a closed-form method for computing hybrid force-velocity control. The key idea is to maximize the kinematic conditioning of the mechanical system, which includes a robot, free objects, a rigid environment and contact…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Yifan Hou , Matthew T. Mason

The correct evaluation of gradients is at the cornerstone of the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) technique. Using an integral approach to estimate gradients has proven to enhance accuracy substantially. Such approach retains the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-31 Domingo García-Senz , Rubén M. Cabezón , José A. Escartín

We review the recent optimizations of gravitational $N$-body kernels for running them on graphics processing units (GPUs), on single hosts and massive parallel platforms. For each of the two main $N$-body techniques, direct summation and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-22 Simon Portegies Zwart , Jeroen Bédorf

There has been a wave of interest in applying machine learning to study dynamical systems. We present a Hamiltonian neural network that solves the differential equations that govern dynamical systems. This is an equation-driven machine…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-07-01 Marios Mattheakis , David Sondak , Akshunna S. Dogra , Pavlos Protopapas

We introduce a new Eulerian simulation framework for liquid animation that leverages both finite element and finite volume methods. In contrast to previous methods where the whole simulation domain is discretized either using the finite…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Tatsuya Koike , Shigeo Morishima , Ryoichi Ando