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Kinetic equations model distributions of particles in position-velocity phase space. Often, one is interested in studying the long-time behavior of particles in high-collisional regimes in which an approximate (advection)-diffusion model…

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The ability of widely used sampling methods, such as molecular dynamics or Monte Carlo, to explore complex free energy landscapes is severely hampered by the presence of kinetic bottlenecks. A large number of solutions have been proposed to…

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The kinetic Monte Carlo method is a standard approach for simulating physical systems whose dynamics are stochastic or that evolve in a probabilistic manner. Here we show how to calculate the system time for such simulations.

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Monte Carlo methods are often necessary for the implementation of optimal Bayesian estimators. A fundamental technique that can be used to generate samples from virtually any target probability distribution is the so-called rejection…

Computation · Statistics 2011-11-22 Luca Martino , Joaquín Míguez

A new Monte-Carlo method for long-range interacting systems is presented. This method consists of eliminating interactions stochastically with the detailed balance condition satisfied. When a pairwise interaction $V_{ij}$ of a $N$-particle…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-13 Munetaka Sasaki , Fumitaka Matsubara

We introduce a `virtual-move' Monte Carlo (VMMC) algorithm for systems of pairwise-interacting particles. This algorithm facilitates the simulation of particles possessing attractions of short range and arbitrary strength and geometry, an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stephen Whitelam , Phillip L. Geissler

To minimise systematic errors in Monte Carlo simulations of charged particles, long range electrostatic interactions have to be calculated accurately and efficiently. Standard approaches, such as Ewald summation or the naive application of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 William Robert Saunders , James Grant , Eike Hermann Müller

A kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) method is presented to simulate the electrodeposition of a metal on a single crystal surface of the same metal under galvanostatic conditions. This method utilizes the multi-body embedded-atom method (EAM)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 Tanyakarn Treeratanaphitak , Mark D. Pritzker , Nasser Mohieddin Abukhdeir

We develop a novel multilevel asymptotic-preserving Monte Carlo method, called Multilevel Kinetic-Diffusion Monte Carlo (ML-KDMC), for simulating the kinetic Boltzmann transport equation with a Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) collision…

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An effective paradigm for simulating the dynamics of robots that locomote and manipulate is multi-rigid body simulation with rigid contact. This paradigm provides reasonable tradeoffs between accuracy, running time, and simplicity of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Evan M. Drumwright

A hybrid mesoscopic multi-particle collision model is used to study diffusion-influenced reaction kinetics. The mesoscopic particle dynamics conserves mass, momentum and energy so that hydrodynamic effects are fully taken into account.…

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Binary magnetic square lattice Ising system with nearest neighbour interactions were simulated using the Monte Carlo technique. Two types of ions were randomly distributed on the lattice sites, one type interacting ferromagnetic and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-01-23 Ike Q. Sikakana

We study a trapped system of fermions with a zero-range two-body interaction using the shell-model Monte Carlo method, providing {\em ab initio} results for the low particle number limit where mean-field theory is not applicable. We present…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-09-22 N. T. Zinner , K. Mølmer , C. Özen , D. J. Dean , K. Langanke

We present a new combinatorial method for the calculation of the nuclear level density. It is based on a Monte Carlo technique, in order to avoid a direct counting procedure which is generally impracticable for high-A nuclei. The Monte…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Cerf

We propose a new Monte Carlo method for efficiently sampling trajectories with fixed initial and final conditions in a system with discrete degrees of freedom. The method can be applied to any stochastic process with local interactions,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-30 Thierry Mora , Aleksandra M. Walczak , Francesco Zamponi

We introduce a quantum Monte Carlo method to simulate the reversible dynamics of correlated many-body systems. Our method is based on the Laplace transform of the time-evolution operator which, as opposed to most quantum Monte Carlo…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Romain Chessex , Massimo Borrelli , Hans Christian Öttinger

We introduce a Monte-Carlo method that allows for the simulation of a polymeric phase containing a weak polyelectrolyte, which is coupled to a reservoir at a fixed pH, salt concentration and total concentration of a weak polyprotic acid.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-12 David Beyer , Christian Holm

Methods of approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) are increasingly used for analysis of complex models. A major challenge for ABC is over-coming the often inherent problem of high rejection rates in the accept/reject methods based on…

Computation · Statistics 2015-03-27 Fernando V. Bonassi , Mike West

A brief review of modeling and simulation methods for a study of polymers at interfaces is provided. When studying truly multiscale problems as provided by realistic polymer systems, coarse graining is practically unavoidable. In this…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-19 Fathollah Varnik , Kurt Binder

There is significant interest in rapid protein simulations because of the time-scale limitations of all-atom methods. Exploiting the low cost and great availability of computer memory, we report a Monte Carlo technique for incorporating…

Biological Physics · Physics 2008-12-04 Artem B. Mamonov , Divesh Bhatt , Derek J. Cashman , Daniel M. Zuckerman