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We develop an approach to apply Wang-Landau algorithm to multicomponent alloys in semi-grand-canonical ensemble. Although the Wang-Landau algorithm has great advantages over conventional sampling methods, there are few applications to…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-18 Kazuhito Takeuchi , Ryohei Tanaka , Koretaka Yuge

We review recent advances in the analysis of the Wang--Landau algorithm, which is designed for the direct Monte Carlo estimation of the density of states (DOS). In the case of a discrete energy spectrum, we present an approach based on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-02 L. N. Shchur

Wavefront sensors encode phase information of an incoming wavefront into an intensity pattern that can be measured on a camera. Several kinds of wavefront sensors (WFS) are used in astronomical adaptive optics. Amongst them, Fourier-based…

When studying high-dimensional dynamical systems such as macromolecules, quantum systems and polymers, a prime concern is the identification of the most probable states and their stationary probabilities or free energies. Often, these…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-01-01 Hao Wu , Frank Noé

It is shown in this work how the Wang-Landau algorithm can be parallelized through the concept of the micromagnetic ensemble, when the Hamiltonian contains both spin interaction and the external field terms, and thus energy-magnetization…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-12 Borko Stosic

We numerically study the metastable states of the 2d Potts model. Both of equilibrium and relaxation properties are investigated focusing on the finite size effect. The former is investigated by finding the free energy extremal point by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-03-09 Tomoaki Nogawa , Nobuyasu Ito , Hiroshi Watanabe

Controlling energy systems usually involves manually designed policies for decision-making, which can be complex and time-consuming to develop. This process requires interdisciplinary collaboration among multiple domain experts, resulting…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-28 Alexander Sommer , Peter Bazan , Behnam Babaeian , Jonathan Fellerer , Warren B. Powell , Reinhard German

We study the sensitivity of wall model input variables to the modeling choices of the outer LES. This work is motivated by sensitivities observed in dynamic slip wall models. These dynamic wall models use variables from the near-wall LES…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-10 Michael Whitmore , Adrián Lozano-Durán , Parviz Moin

We apply the recently developed critical minimum energy subspace scheme for the investigation of the random-field Ising model. We point out that this method is well suited for the study of this model. The density of states is obtained via…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anastasios Malakis , Nikolaos G. Fytas

We formally extend the energy landscape approach for the thermodynamics of liquids to account for saddle points. By considering the extensive nature of macroscopic potential energies, we derive the scaling behavior of saddles with system…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 M. S. Shell , P. G. Debenedetti , A. Z. Panagiotopoulos

Learning conditional densities and identifying factors that influence the entire distribution are vital tasks in data-driven applications. Conventional approaches work mostly with summary statistics, and are hence inadequate for a…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-09-13 Chengliang Tang , Nathan Lenssen , Ying Wei , Tian Zheng

For high-fidelity predictions of turbulent flows in complex practical engineering problems, the Wall-Modeled (WM) Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) has aroused great interest. In the present study, we prove that the conventional Wall-Stress…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-12 Mohammad Taghvaei , Ehsan Amani

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are useful in obtaining thermodynamic and kinetic properties of bio-molecules but are limited by the timescale barrier, i.e., we may be unable to efficiently obtain properties because we need to run…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Surl-Hee Ahn , Jay W. Grate , Eric F. Darve

The rapid advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized various natural language processing tasks. However, the substantial size of LLMs presents significant challenges in training or fine-tuning. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Pengxiang Li , Lu Yin , Xiaowei Gao , Shiwei Liu

Monte Carlo simulation has been performed in one-dimensional Lebwohl-Lasher model and two dimensional XY-model using the Wang-Landau and the Wang-Landau-Transition-Matrix Monte Carlo methods. Random walk has been performed in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-27 Shyamal Bhar , Soumen Kumar Roy

In this short note, we show how the parallel adaptive Wang-Landau (PAWL) algorithm of Bornn et al. (2013) can be used to automate and improve simulated tempering algorithms. While Wang-Landau and other stochastic approximation methods have…

Computation · Statistics 2013-05-23 Luke Bornn

Though the existence of two-level systems (TLS) is widely accepted to explain low temperature anomalies in the sound absorption, heat capacity, thermal conductivity and other quantities, an exact description of their microscopic nature is…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Reinisch , A. Heuer

Metadynamics is an established sampling method aimed at reconstructing the free-energy surface relative to a set of appropriately chosen collective variables. In standard metadynamics the free-energy surface is filled by the addition of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-07-11 Davide Branduardi , Giovanni Bussi , Michele Parrinello

We compare the convergence of several flat-histogram methods applied to the 2D Ising model, including the recently introduced stochastic approximation with a dynamic update factor (SAD) method. We compare this method with the Wang-Landau…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-23 Jordan K. Pommerenck , David Roundy

We propose a method based on the Wang-Landau algorithm to numerically generate the spectral densities of random matrix ensembles. The method employs Dyson's log-gas formalism for random matrix eigenvalues and also enables one to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-01-28 Santosh Kumar