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In plasma edge simulations, kinetic Monte Carlo (MC) is often used to simulate neutral particles and estimate source terms. For large-sized reactors, like ITER and DEMO, high particle collision rates lead to a substantial computational cost…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Zhirui Tang , Emil Løvbak , Julian Koellermeier , Giovanni Samaey

This paper presents a class of one-dimensional cellular automata (CA) models on traffic flows, featuring nonlocal look-ahead interactions. We develop kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) algorithms to simulate the dynamics. The standard KMC method can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Yi Sun , Changhui Tan

The shape evolution of two-dimensional islands under electromigration-driven periphery diffusion is studied by kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulations and continuum theory. The energetics of the KMC model is adapted to the Cu(100) surface,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 Marko Rusanen , Philipp Kuhn , Joachim Krug

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods represent a powerful family of computational techniques for tackling complex quantum many-body problems and performing calculations of stationary state properties. QMC is among the most accurate and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-08 Alfonso Annarelli , Dario Alfè , Andrea Zen

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-23 Bert Mortier , Pieterjan Robbe , Martine Baelmans , Giovanni Samaey

Morphologies of adsorbed molecular films are of interest in a wide range of applications. To study the epitaxial growth of these systems in computer simulations requires access to long time and length scales and one typically resorts to…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-07 William Janke , Thomas Speck

We present a method to model the interaction and the dynamics of atoms excited to Rydberg states. We show a way to solve the optical Bloch equations for laser excitation of the frozen gas in good agreement with the experiment. A second…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Amodsen Chotia , Matthieu Viteau , Thibault Vogt , Daniel Comparat , Pierre Pillet

Particle-based kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of neutral particles is one of the major computational bottlenecks in tokamak scrape-off layer simulations. This computational cost comes from the need to resolve individual collision events in…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Oskar Lappi , Emil Løvbak , Thijs Steel , Giovanni Samaey

If a stochastic system during some periods of its evolution can be divided into non-interacting parts, the kinetics of each part can be simulated independently. We show that this can be used in the development of efficient Monte Carlo…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 V. I. Tokar , H. Dreyssé

A massively parallel kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) approach is proposed for simulating ionic migration in a crystal system by introducing the atomic fragmentation scheme (fragment kMC). The fragment kMC method achieved a reasonable parallel…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-05-28 Hiroya Nakata

We simulate the sintering of particle aggregates due to surface diffusion. As a method we use Kinetic Monte-Carlo simulations in which elasticity can explicitly be taken into account. Therefore it is possible to investigate the shape…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Westerhoff , R. Zinetullin , D. E. Wolf

We present a kinetic Monte Carlo method for simulating chemical transformations specified by reaction rules, which can be viewed as generators of chemical reactions, or equivalently, definitions of reaction classes. A rule identifies the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2010-07-09 Jin Yang , Michael I. Monine , James R. Faeder , William S. Hlavacek

An off-lattice, continuous space Kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) algorithm is discussed and applied in the investigation of strained heteroepitaxial crystal growth. As a starting point, we study a simplifying (1+1)-dimensional situation with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Biehl , Florian Much , Christian Vey

A Monte Carlo simulation of chemotactic bacteria is developed on the basis of the kinetic model and is applied to a one-dimensional traveling population wave in a microchannel. In this simulation, the Monte Carlo method, which calculates…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Shugo Yasuda

Kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) is an important computational tool in physics and chemistry. In contrast to standard Monte Carlo, KMC permits the description of time dependent dynamical processes and is not restricted to systems in equilibrium.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 William Robert Saunders , James Grant , Eike Hermann Müller , Ian Thompson

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.

Computational Physics · Physics 2008-01-14 Clinton DeW. Van Siclen

To better understand the capture process by a nanopore, we introduce an efficient Kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) algorithm that can simulate long times and large system sizes by mapping the dynamic of a point-like particle in a 3D spherically…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-03-22 Le Qiao , Maxime Ignacio , Gary W. Slater

Monte Carlo simulations are widely used in many areas including particle accelerators. In this lecture, after a short introduction and reviewing of some statistical backgrounds, we will discuss methods such as direct inversion, rejection…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 Ji Qiang

Monte Carlo methods play important part in modern statistical physics. The application of these methods suffer from two main difficulties.The first is caused by the relatively small number of particles that can participate in any numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Brandt , V. Ilyin

We present a novel way of performing kinetic Monte Carlo simulations which does not require an {\it a priori} list of diffusion processes and their associated energetics and reaction rates. Rather, at any time during the simulation,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Oleg Trushin , Altaf Karim , Abdelkader Kara , Talat S. Rahman