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Stochastic thermostats based on the Langevin equation, in which a system is coupled to an external heat bath, are popular methods for temperature control in molecular dynamics simulations due to their ergodicity and their ease of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Mahdi Hijazi , David M. Wilkins , Michele Ceriotti

Diffusion studies of adsorbates moving on a surface are often analyzed using 2D Langevin simulations. These simulations are computationally cheap and offer valuable insight into the dynamics, however, they simplify the complex interactions…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 Moshe Diamant , Saar Rahav , Riccardo Ferrando , Gil Alexandrowicz

This article considers the application of Langevin dynamics to sampling and investigates how to choose the damping parameter in Langevin dynamics for the purpose of maximizing thoroughness of sampling. Also, it considers the computation of…

Computation · Statistics 2021-06-23 Robert D. Skeel , Carsten Hartmann

Energy-correction method is proposed as an addition to mainstream integrators for equations of motion of systems of classical spins. This solves the problem of non-conservation of energy in long computations and makes mainstream integrators…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-11-18 Dmitry A. Garanin

Overdamped Langevin dynamics are reversible stochastic differential equations which are commonly used to sample probability measures in high-dimensional spaces, such as the ones appearing in computational statistical physics and Bayesian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Tony Lelièvre , Grigorios A. Pavliotis , Geneviève Robin , Régis Santet , Gabriel Stoltz

Sampling from distributions play a crucial role in aiding practitioners with statistical inference. However, in numerous situations, obtaining exact samples from complex distributions is infeasible. Consequently, researchers often turn to…

Computation · Statistics 2024-04-01 Riddhiman Bhattacharya , Tiefeng Jiang

This paper investigates the equations of motion for a relativistic charged particle in a general magnetic field. By reformulating the dynamics in four-dimensional spacetime and separating the linear and nonlinear parts, we construct an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Zhirui Shen , Bin Wang

Optical micro-manipulation techniques has evolved into powerful tools to efficiently steer the motion of microscopical particles on periodic and quasi-periodic potentials, driven by the external electromagnetic field. Here, the dynamics of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-11-13 Aliezer Martínez-Mesa , Llinersy Uranga Piña

A model has two main aims: predicting the behavior of a physical system and understanding its nature, that is how it works, at some desired level of abstraction. A promising recent approach to model building consists in deriving a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-26 Marco Baldovin , Andrea Puglisi , Angelo Vulpiani

We present a novel method for drawing samples from Gibbs distributions with densities of the form $\pi(x) \propto \exp(-U(x))$. The method accelerates the unadjusted Langevin algorithm by introducing an inertia term similar to Polyak's…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Alexander Falk , Andreas Habring , Christoph Griesbacher , Thomas Pock

A new computational method is presented for study suspensions of charged soft particles undergoing fluctuating hydrodynamic and electrostatic interactions. The proposed model is appropriate for polymers, proteins and porous particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-04-14 Juan P. Hernandez-Ortiz , Juan J. de Pablo

Diffusion models are state-of-the-art methods in generative modeling when samples from a target probability distribution are available, and can be efficiently sampled, using score matching to estimate score vectors guiding a Langevin…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-21 Omar Chehab , Anna Korba

Many methods that build powerful variational distributions based on unadjusted Langevin transitions exist. Most of these were developed using a wide range of different approaches and techniques. Unfortunately, the lack of a unified analysis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Tomas Geffner , Justin Domke

Many complex systems, ranging from migrating cells to animal groups, exhibit stochastic dynamics described by the underdamped Langevin equation. Inferring such an equation of motion from experimental data can provide profound insight into…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 David B. Brückner , Pierre Ronceray , Chase P. Broedersz

An interacting system of Langevin dynamics driven particles has been proposed for sampling from a given posterior density by Garbuno-Inigo, Hoffmann, Li and Stuart in Interacting Langevin Diffusions: Gradient Structure and Ensemble Kalman…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-08-30 Nikolas Nüsken , Sebastian Reich

Equality-constrained models naturally arise in problems in which measurements are taken at different levels of resolution. The challenge in this setting is that the models usually induce a joint distribution which is intractable. Resorting…

Computation · Statistics 2025-04-28 Shenggang Hu , Hongsheng Dai , Fanlin Meng , Louis Aslett , Murray Pollock , Gareth O. Roberts

Error bounds are derived for sampling and estimation using a discretization of an intrinsically defined Langevin diffusion with invariant measure $\text{d}\mu_\phi \propto e^{-\phi} \mathrm{dvol}_g $ on a compact Riemannian manifold. Two…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Karthik Bharath , Alexander Lewis , Akash Sharma , Michael V Tretyakov

The reduction of high-dimensional systems to effective models on a smaller set of variables is an essential task in many areas of science. For stochastic dynamics governed by diffusion processes, a general procedure to find effective…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Feliks Nüske , Péter Koltai , Lorenzo Boninsegna , Cecilia Clementi

We study the task of efficiently sampling from a Gibbs distribution $d \pi^* = e^{-h} d {vol}_g$ over a Riemannian manifold $M$ via (geometric) Langevin MCMC; this algorithm involves computing exponential maps in random Gaussian directions…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-19 Xiang Cheng , Jingzhao Zhang , Suvrit Sra

We study fluctuating dynamics of a freely movable piston that separates an infinite cylinder into two regions filled with ideal gas particles at the same pressure but different temperatures. To investigate statistical properties of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-15 Masato Itami , Yohei Nakayama , Naoko Nakagawa , Shin-ichi Sasa