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The behavior of active matter under confinement poses significant challenges due to the intricate coupling between dynamics near boundaries and those in the bulk. A defining feature of active matter systems is that a substantial portion of…

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A lattice model is used to study repulsive active particles at a planar surface. A rejection-free Kinetic Monte Carlo method is employed to characterize the wetting behaviour. The model predicts a mobility induced phase separation of active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-12 Pedro Neta , Mykola Tasinkevych , Margarida Telo da Gama , Cristóvão Dias

In this paper, we develop and analyze a stochastic algorithm for solving space-time fractional diffusion models, which are widely used to describe anomalous diffusion dynamics. These models pose substantial numerical challenges due to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-29 Tengteng Cui , Chengtao Sheng , Bihao Su , Zhi Zhou

The link between the energy surface of bulk systems and their dynamical properties is generally difficult to establish. Using the activation-relaxation technique (ART nouveau), we follow the change in the barrier distribution of a model of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-18 Houssem Kallel , Normand Mousseau , François Schiettekatte

The reverse Monte Carlo (RMC) method is widely used in structural modelling and analysis of experimental data. More recently, RMC has been applied to the calculation of equilibrium thermodynamic properties and dynamic problems. These…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-12-02 Akash Kumar Ball , Suhail Haque , Abhijit Chatterjee

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We develop off-lattice simulations of semiflexible polymer chains subjected to applied mechanical forces using Markov Chain Monte Carlo. Our approach models the polymer as a chain of fixed-length bonds, with configurations updated through…

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We have used kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) simulations of a lattice gas to study front fluctuations in the spreading of a non-volatile liquid droplet onto a solid substrate. Our results are consistent with a diffusive growth law for the radius…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-30 J. M. Marcos , P. Rodríguez-López , J. J. Melendez , R. Cuerno , J. J. Ruiz-Lorenzo

Efficient continuous time quantum Monte Carlo (CT-QMC) algorithms that do not suffer from time discretization errors have become the state-of-the-art for most discrete quantum models. They have not been widely used yet for fermionic quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-08 Mauro Iazzi , Matthias Troyer

While recent work towards the development of tight-binding and ab-initio algorithms has focused on molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo methods can often lead to better results with relatively little effort. We present here a multi-step Monte…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Parthapratim Biswas , G. T. Barkema , Normand Mousseau , W. F. van der Weg

Time-dependent kinetic models are ubiquitous in computational science and engineering. The underlying integro-differential equations in these models are high-dimensional, comprised of a six--dimensional phase space, making simulations of…

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The kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) method is used in many scientific fields in applications involving rare-event transitions. Due to its discrete stochastic nature, efforts to parallelize kMC approaches often produce unbalanced time evolutions…

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In this paper, we extend our analysis of lattice systems using the wavelet transform to systems for which exact enumeration is impractical. For such systems, we illustrate a wavelet-accelerated Monte Carlo (WAMC) algorithm, which…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ahmed E. Ismail , George Stephanopoulos , Gregory C. Rutledge

Precipitates in Nickel-based superalloys form during heat treatment on a time scale inaccessible to direct molecular dynamics simulation, but could be studied using kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC). This requires reliable values for the barrier…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-12 Adam Fisher , Julie B. Staunton , Huan Wu , Peter Brommer

We report a kinetic Monte Carlo modeling study of nanocrystal layer sintering. Features that are of interest for the dynamics of the layer as a whole, especially the morphology of the evolving structure, are considered. It is found that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-11 Vyacheslav Gorshkov , Vasily Kuzmenko , Vladimir Privman

We propose and investigate a new multi-level Monte Carlo scheme for numerical solutions of the kinetic Boltzmann equation for neutral species in edge plasmas. In particular, this method explicitly exploits a key structural property of…

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The Dynamic Monte Carlo (DMC) method is an established molecular simulation technique for the analysis of the dynamics in colloidal suspensions. An excellent alternative to Brownian Dynamics or Molecular Dynamics simulation, DMC is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-15 Fabián A. García Daza , Alejandro Cuetos , Alessandro Patti

In the last few years, much efforts have gone into developing universal machine-learning potentials able to describe interactions for a wide range of structures and phases. Yet, as attention turns to more complex materials including alloys,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-23 Eugène Sanscartier , Félix Saint-Denis , Karl-Étienne Bolduc , Normand Mousseau

The behavior of a Lattice Monte Carlo algorithm (if it is designed correctly) must approach that of the continuum system that it is designed to simulate as the time step and the mesh step tend to zero. However, we show for an algorithm for…

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Developing devices using disordered organic semiconductors requires accurate and practical models of charge transport. In these materials, charge transport occurs through partially delocalised states in an intermediate regime between…

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