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Particles and fields are standard components in numerical simulations like transport simulations in nuclear physics and have very well understood dynamics. Still, a common problem is the interaction between particles and fields due to their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-16 Christian Wesp , Hendrik van Hees , Alex Meistrenko , Carsten Greiner

The escape rate of a Brownian particle over a potential barrier is accurately described by the Kramers theory. A quantitative theory explicitly taking the activity of Brownian particles into account has been lacking due to the inherently…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-01 A. Sharma , R. Wittmann , J. M. Brader

Recent work incorporating geometric ideas in Markov chain Monte Carlo is reviewed in order to highlight these advances and their possible application in a range of domains beyond Statistics. A full exposition of Markov chains and their use…

Computation · Statistics 2015-06-19 Samuel Livingstone , Mark Girolami

We propose a reflection-free Langevin framework for sampling and optimization on compact polyhedra. The method is based on the inverse Hessian of the logarithmic barrier, which defines a Dikin--Langevin diffusion whose drift and noise adapt…

Computation · Statistics 2026-03-17 James Chok , Domenic Petzinna

A key goal in the design of probabilistic inference algorithms is identifying and exploiting properties of the distribution that make inference tractable. Lifted inference algorithms identify symmetry as a property that enables efficient…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Steven Holtzen , Todd Millstein , Guy Van den Broeck

The measured time series from complex systems are renowned for their intricate stochastic behavior, characterized by random fluctuations stemming from external influences and nonlinear interactions. These fluctuations take diverse forms,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-19 Pyei Phyo Lin , Matthias Wächter , Joachim Peinke , M. Reza Rahimi Tabar

We present a simplified model for dynamical diffraction of particles through a periodic thick perfect crystal based on repeated application of a coherent beam splitting unitary at coarse-grained lattice sites. By demanding translational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 J. Nsofini , K. Ghofrani , D. Sarenac , D. G. Cory , D. A. Pushin

We estimate the accuracy with which the coefficient of the lepton flavour-violating dimension-six operators can be measured at the proposed electron-proton collider. Cuts-based analysis is performed to compute the signal significance at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-17 Hrishabh Bharadwaj , Sukanta Dutta

The classical Langevin Monte Carlo method looks for samples from a target distribution by descending the samples along the gradient of the target distribution. The method enjoys a fast convergence rate. However, the numerical cost is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-07 Zhiyan Ding , Qin Li

Generative models have advanced significantly in sampling material systems with continuous variables, such as atomistic structures. However, their application to discrete variables, like atom types or spin states, remains underexplored. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-18 Ping Tuo , Zezhu Zeng , Jiale Chen , Bingqing Cheng

In this paper, we establish the optimal convergence result of a second order exponential-type integrator from (136, Numer. Math., 2017) for solving the KdV equation under rough initial data. The scheme is explicit and efficient to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-12 Yifei Wu , Xiaofei Zhao

Langevin equations are used to model many processes of physical interest, including low-energy nuclear collisions. In this paper we develop a general method for computing probabilities of very rare events (e.g. small fusion cross-sections)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 O. Mazonka , C. Jarzynski , J. Blocki

The purpose of this paper is to examine the Lagrangian stochastic modeling of the fluid velocity seen by inertial particles in a nonhomogeneous turbulent flow. A new Langevin-type model, compatible with the transport equation of the drift…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-07-01 Boris Arcen , Anne Tanière

In this paper, we formulate and analyse exponential integrations when applied to nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations in a normal or highly oscillatory regime. A kind of exponential integrators with energy preservation, optimal convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Bin Wang , Yaolin Jiang

We study the Riemannian Langevin Algorithm for the problem of sampling from a distribution with density $\nu$ with respect to the natural measure on a manifold with metric $g$. We assume that the target density satisfies a log-Sobolev…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Khashayar Gatmiry , Santosh S. Vempala

For a given target density, there exist an infinite number of diffusion processes which are ergodic with respect to this density. As observed in a number of papers, samplers based on nonreversible diffusion processes can significantly…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-01-17 A. B. Duncan , G. A. Pavliotis , K. C. Zygalakis

We simulate lattice QCD at finite quark-number chemical potential to study nuclear matter, using the complex Langevin equation (CLE). The CLE is used because the fermion determinant is complex so that standard methods relying on importance…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 D. K. Sinclair , J. B. Kogut

In this paper, we propose a new class of splitting methods to solve the stochastic Langevin equation, which can simultaneously preserve the ergodicity and exponential integrability of the original equation. The central idea is to extract a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Chuchu Chen , Tonghe Dang , Jialin Hong , Fengshan Zhang

Umbrella sampling efficiently yields equilibrium averages that depend on exploring rare states of a model by biasing simulations to windows of coordinate values and then combining the resulting data with physical weighting. Here, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-21 Erik Thiede , Brian Van Koten , Jonathan Weare , Aaron R. Dinner

This paper is devoted to the development of a theoretical and computational framework to efficiently sample the statistically significant thermally activated reaction pathways, in multi-dimensional systems obeying Langevin dynamics. We show…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Autieri , P. Faccioli , M. Sega , F. Pederiva , H. Orland