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We study the stochastic motion of an intruder in a dilute driven granular gas. All particles are coupled to a thermostat, representing the external energy source, which is the sum of random forces and a viscous drag. The dynamics of the…

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We develop the equations of motion for full body models that describe the dynamics of rigid bodies, acting under their mutual gravity. The equations are derived using a variational approach where variations are defined on the Lie group of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Taeyoung Lee , Melvin Leok , N. Harris McClamroch

This paper presents a Lie-Trotter splitting for inertial Langevin equations (Geometric Langevin Algorithm) and analyzes its long-time statistical properties. The splitting is defined as a composition of a variational integrator with an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-04-05 Nawaf Bou-Rabee , Houman Owhadi

Recently it has been questioned, notably in the context of the scalar singlet dark matter model with $m_\varphi^{ }\simeq 60$ GeV, how efficiently kinetic equilibrium is maintained if freeze-out dynamics is pushed down to low temperatures…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-08 Seyong Kim , M. Laine

In this paper, we consider Langevin processes with mechanical constraints. The latter are a fundamental tool in molecular dynamics simulation for sampling purposes and for the computation of free energy differences. The results of this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-04-19 Tony Lelievre , Mathias Rousset , Gabriel Stoltz

We propose a novel kinetic Langevin sampler based on a specific splitting scheme using the exact harmonic Langevin integrator. For strongly log-concave target measures, the sampler exploits a decomposition of the strongly convex potential…

Computation · Statistics 2026-05-26 Katharina Schuh

Previous years researchers began to simulate open quantum system, taking into account the interaction between system and the environment. One approach to deal with this problem is to use the density matrix within the Liouville-von-Neumann…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Mohammad Attrash , Roi Baer

The deformability of soft condensed matter often requires modelling of hydrodynamical aspects to gain quantitative understanding. This, however, requires specialised methods that can resolve the multiscale nature of soft matter systems. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-22 Ulf D. Schiller , Timm Krüger , Oliver Henrich

When modeling charge dynamics in a chain of N sites at a temperature T, a Langevin thermostat and a Hamiltonian system, i.e., a chain heated to a given temperature before charge is injected, are compared. It is shown that the polaron…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-10 N. Fialko , M. Olshevets , V. D. Lakhno

The present study is based on a recent success of the second-order stochastic fluctuation theory in describing time autocorrelations of equilibrium and nonequilibrium physical systems. In particular, it was shown to yield values of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-23 Roman Belousov , E. G. D. Cohen , Lamberto Rondoni

In this paper we develop a Lagrangian Inertial Centroidal Voronoi Particle (LICVP) method to extend the original CVP method \cite{fu2017physics} to dynamic load balancing in particle-based simulations. Two new concepts are proposed to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Zhe Ji , Lin Fu , Xiangyu Y. Hu , Nikolaus A. Adams

We present a combination of tools which allows for investigation of the coupled orbital and rotational dynamics of two rigid bodies with nearly arbitrary shape and mass distribution, under the influence of their mutual gravitational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Eugene G. Fahnestock , Taeyoung Lee , Melvin Leok , N. Harris McClamroch , Daniel J. Scheeres

We study a planar two-temperature diffusion of a Brownian particle in a parabolic potential. The diffusion process is defined in terms of two Langevin equations with two different effective temperatures in the X and the Y directions. In the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 Victor Dotsenko , Anna Maciolek , Oleg Vasilyev , Gleb Oshanin

We introduce thermal fluctuations in the lattice Boltzmann method for non-ideal fluids. A fluctuation-dissipation theorem is derived within the Langevin framework and applied to a specific lattice Boltzmann model that approximates the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-01 M. Gross , R. Adhikari , M. E. Cates , F. Varnik

Strapdown inertial navigation research involves the parameterization and computation of the attitude, velocity and position of a rigid body in a chosen reference frame. The community has long devoted to finding the most concise and…

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We investigate the motion of a colloidal particle driven out of equilibrium by an external torque. We use the molecular dynamics simulation that is alternative to the numerical integration approach based on the Langevin equation and is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-08 Donghwan Yoo , Youngkyun Jung , Chulan Kwon

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

Molecular design requires systematic and broadly applicable methods to extract structure-property relationships. The focus of this study is on learning thermodynamic properties from molecular-liquid simulations. The methodology relies on an…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-04 Bernadette Mohr , Diego van der Mast , Tristan Bereau

We discuss the design of state-of-the-art numerical methods for molecular dynamics, focusing on the demands of soft matter simulation, where the purposes include sampling and dynamics calculations both in and out of equilibrium. We discuss…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-14 Xiaocheng Shang , Martin Kröger , Benedict Leimkuhler

We report an improved method for the calculation of tunneling splittings between degenerate configurations in molecules and clusters using path-integral molecular dynamics (PIMD). Starting from an expression involving a ratio of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 C L Vaillant , D J Wales , S C Althorpe