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With Wendelstein 7-X now up and running, and the construction of ITER proceeding, predicting fast-ion losses to sensitive plasma-facing components and detectors is gaining significant interest. A common recipe to perform such studies is to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-14 Eero Hirvijoki

In this paper we address the problem of Monte Carlo approximation of posterior probability distributions in stochastic kinetic models (SKMs). SKMs are multivariate Markov jump processes that model the interactions among species in…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-04-22 Eugenia Koblents , Joaquín Míguez

We develop a novel Monte Carlo strategy for the simulation of the Boltzmann-BGK model with both low-collisional and high-collisional regimes present. The presented solution to maintain accuracy in low-collisional regimes and remove…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Bert Mortier , Martine Baelmans , Giovanni Samaey

Hamiltonian Flow Monte Carlo(HFMC) methods have been implemented in engineering, biology and chemistry. HFMC makes large gradient based steps to rapidly explore the state space. The application of the Hamiltonian dynamics allows to estimate…

Computation · Statistics 2017-09-06 Raphael Douady , Shohruh Miryusupov

We describe a new Hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm for dynamical overlap fermions, which improves the rate of topological index changes by adding an additional (intensive) term to the action for the molecular dynamics part of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2012-02-28 Nigel Cundy , Weonjong Lee

We give a detailed description of the so-called Polynomial Hybrid Monte Carlo (PHMC) algorithm. The effects of the correction factor, which is introduced to render the algorithm exact, are discussed, stressing their relevance for the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Frezzotti , K. Jansen

Message-Passing Monte Carlo (MPMC) was recently introduced as a novel low-discrepancy sampling approach leveraging tools from geometric deep learning. While originally designed for generating uniform point sets, we extend this framework to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Nathan Kirk , T. Konstantin Rusch , Jakob Zech , Daniela Rus

A diffusion Monte Carlo algorithm is introduced that can determine the correct nodal structure of the wave function of a few-fermion system and its ground-state energy without an uncontrolled bias. This is achieved by confining signed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Alexander A. Kunitsa , So Hirata

In this paper, we develop an efficient asymptotic-preserving (AP) Monte Carlo (MC) method for frequency-dependent radiative transfer equations (RTEs), which is based on the AP-MC method proposed for the gray RTEs in \cite{shi2023efficient}.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Yiyang Hong , Yi Shi , Yi Cai , Tao Xiong

Correlated fermions are of high interest in condensed matter (Fermi liquids, Wigner molecules), cold atomic gases and dense plasmas. Here we propose a novel approach to path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations of strongly degenerate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-01-15 Tobias Dornheim , Simon Groth , Alexey Filinov , Michael Bonitz

This review article is intended as a practical guide for newcomers to the field of kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulations, and specifically to lattice KMC simulations as prevalently used for surface and interface applications. We will…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-04-05 Mie Andersen , Chiara Panosetti , Karsten Reuter

The theoretical description of non-renewal stochastic systems is a challenge. Analytical results are often not available or can only be obtained under strong conditions, limiting their applicability. Also, numerical results have mostly been…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-06-07 Wilhelm Braun , Rüdiger Thul , André Longtin

Global fits of physics models require efficient methods for exploring high-dimensional and/or multimodal posterior functions. We introduce a novel method for accelerating Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling by pairing a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-06 N. T. Hunt-Smith , W. Melnitchouk , F. Ringer , N. Sato , A. W Thomas , M. J. White

We propose a novel approach for modeling chemical reactions within the particle-based Fokker-Planck framework for gas flow simulations which conserves mass, momentum, and energy while retaining the performance advantages of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Leo Basov , Georgii Oblapenko , Martin Grabe

Kinetic descriptions of runaway electrons (RE) are usually based on Fokker-Planck models that determine the probability distribution function (PDF) of RE in 2-dimensional momentum space. Despite of the simplification involved, the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Guannan Zhang , Diego del-Castillo-Negrete

A novel class of non-reversible Markov chain Monte Carlo schemes relying on continuous-time piecewise-deterministic Markov Processes has recently emerged. In these algorithms, the state of the Markov process evolves according to a…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-05-16 Paul Vanetti , Alexandre Bouchard-Côté , George Deligiannidis , Arnaud Doucet

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

Switching state-space models (SSSM) are a very popular class of time series models that have found many applications in statistics, econometrics and advanced signal processing. Bayesian inference for these models typically relies on Markov…

Computation · Statistics 2010-11-11 Nick Whiteley , Christophe Andrieu , Arnaud Doucet

Efficient Monte Carlo (MC) sampling of many-body systems with long-range electrostatics is often limited by the cost of per-move energy-difference evaluation under periodic boundary conditions. We present DMK-MC, an accelerated MC method…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Xuanzhao Gao , Shidong Jiang , Jiuyang Liang , Qi Zhou

The first passage time (FPT) problem is ubiquitous in many applications. In finance, we often have to deal with stochastic processes with jump-diffusion, so that the FTP problem is reducible to a stochastic differential equation with…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Di Zhang , Roderick V. N. Melnik