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We provide an analytical framework for analyzing the quality of stochastic Verlet-type integrators for simulating the Langevin equation. Focusing only on basic objective measures, we consider the ability of an integrator to correctly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Niels Grønbech-Jensen

We present a new method of conducting molecular dynamics simulation in isothermal-isobaric ensemble based on Langevin equations of motion. The stochastic coupling to all particle and cell degrees of freedoms is introduced in a correct way,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-28 Xingyu Gao , Jun Fang , Han Wang

The Langevin dynamics is a diffusion process extensively used, in particular in molecular dynamics simulations, to sample Gibbs measures. Some alternatives based on (piecewise deterministic) kinetic velocity jump processes have gained…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Nicolaï Gouraud , Lucas Journel , Pierre Monmarché

This paper presents a Lie-Trotter splitting for inertial Langevin equations (Geometric Langevin Algorithm) and analyzes its long-time statistical properties. The splitting is defined as a composition of a variational integrator with an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-04-05 Nawaf Bou-Rabee , Houman Owhadi

In molecular dynamics, penalized overdamped Langevin dynamics are used to model the motion of a set of particles that follow constraints up to a parameter $\varepsilon$. The most used schemes for simulating these dynamics are the Euler…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-10 Adrien Laurent

We apply well-established concepts of Langevin sampling to derive a new class of algorithms for the efficient computation of free energy differences of fluctuating particles embedded in a 'fast' membrane, i.e., a membrane that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-01 Tobias Kies , Carsten Gräser , Luigi Delle Site , Ralf Kornhuber

Non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations, of crucial importance in sliding friction, are hampered by arbitrariness and uncertainties in the removal of the frictionally generated Joule heat. Building upon general pre-existing…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-08-29 A. Benassi , A. Vanossi , G. E. Santoro , E. Tosatti

We introduce a numerical method for Brownian dynamics with position dependent diffusion tensor which is second order accurate for sampling the invariant measure while requiring only one force evaluation per timestep. Analysis of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Eugen Bronasco , Benedict Leimkuhler , Dominic Phillips , Gilles Vilmart

We present a novel methodology based on filtered data and moving averages for estimating effective dynamics from observations of multiscale systems. We show in a semi-parametric framework of the Langevin type that our approach is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Giacomo Garegnani , Andrea Zanoni

A new approach to effective theory of quarks in the instanton vacuum is presented. Exact equations for the quark propagator and Lagrangian are derived which contain contributions of all quark modes with known coefficients. The resulting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 B. O. Kerbikov , D. S. Kuzmenko , Yu. A. Simonov

The dynamics of one and two identical spheres rolling in a nearly-levitating upflow of air obey the Langevin Equation and the Fluctuation-Dissipation Relation [Ojha et al. Nature 427, 521 (2004) and Phys. Rev. E 71, 01631 (2005)]. To probe…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. R. Abate , D. J. Durian

Markov chain Monte Carlo samplers based on discretizations of (overdamped) Langevin dynamics are commonly used in the Bayesian inference and computational statistical physics literature to estimate high-dimensional integrals. One can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Tony Lelièvre , Régis Santet , Gabriel Stoltz

We implement the statistically sound G-JF thermostat for Langevin Dynamics simulations into the ESPREesSo molecular package for large-scale simulations of soft matter systems. The implemented integration method is tested against the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 Evyatar Arad , Oded Farago , Niels Grønbech-Jensen

Langevin dynamics has become a popular tool to simulate the Boltzmann equilibrium distribution. When the repartition of the Langevin equation involves the exact realization of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck noise, in addition to the conventional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Dezhang Li , Xu Han , Yichen Chai , Cong Wang , Zifei Chen , Zhijun Zhang , Jian Liu , Jiushu Shao

We propose a new method called the Metropolis-adjusted Mirror Langevin algorithm for approximate sampling from distributions whose support is a compact and convex set. This algorithm adds an accept-reject filter to the Markov chain induced…

Computation · Statistics 2024-06-24 Vishwak Srinivasan , Andre Wibisono , Ashia Wilson

We introduce and benchmark an improved algorithm for complex Langevin simulations of bosonic coherent state path integrals. Our approach utilizes a Strang splitting of the imaginary-time propagator rather than the conventional linear-order…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-02-18 Thomas G. Kiely , Ethan C. McGarrigle , Glenn H. Fredrickson

We propose a novel method for sampling from unnormalized Boltzmann densities based on a probability flow ordinary differential equation (ODE) derived from linear stochastic interpolants. The key innovation of our approach is the use of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Chenguang Duan , Yuling Jiao , Gabriele Steidl , Christian Wald , Jerry Zhijian Yang , Ruizhe Zhang

Diffusion models suffer from slow sample generation at inference time. Despite recent efforts, improving the sampling efficiency of stochastic samplers for diffusion models remains a promising direction. We propose Splitting Integrators for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Kushagra Pandey , Maja Rudolph , Stephan Mandt

Bayesian inference plays a central role in scientific and engineering applications by enabling principled reasoning under uncertainty. However, sampling from generic probability distributions remains a computationally demanding task. This…

Applications · Statistics 2025-09-03 Alex Leviyev , Francesco Iacovelli , Aaron Zimmerman

The complex Langevin approach is a promising method for the numerical treatment of systems with a sign problem, for which conventional lattice field theory techniques based on importance sampling cannot be applied. However, complex Langevin…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-15 Michael Mandl