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We present a Monte Carlo method that efficiently computes the density of states for spin models having any number of interaction per spin. By combining a random-walk in the energy space with collective updates controlled by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sylvain Reynal , Hung-The Diep

Two first-principles simulation techniques, path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) and density functional molecular dynamics (DFT-MD), are applied to study hot, dense helium in the density-temperature range of 0.387 - 5.35 g/cc and 500 K -…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 B. Militzer

We apply the diagrammatic Monte Carlo approach to three-dimensional Fermi-polaron systems with mass-imbalance, where an impurity interacts resonantly with a noninteracting Fermi sea whose atoms have a different mass. This method allows to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-04-23 Peter Kroiss , Lode Pollet

In particle-based algorithms, the effect of binary collisions is commonly described in a statistical way, using Monte Carlo techniques. It is shown that, in the relativistic regime, stringent constraints should be considered on the sampling…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Peano , M. Marti , L. O. Silva , G. Coppa

Measuring di-Higgs production in the four-bottom channel is challenged by overwhelming QCD backgrounds and imperfect simulations. We develop a Bayesian mixture model that simultaneously infers signal and background fractions and their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-01 Ezequiel Alvarez , Leandro Da Rold , Manuel Szewc , Alejandro Szynkman , Santiago Tanco , Tatiana Tarutina

The binary Monte Carlo (MC) collision algorithm is a standard and robust method to include binary Coulomb collision effects in particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of plasmas. Here, we show that the coupling between PIC and MC algorithms can…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-01-15 E. Paulo Alves , Warren B. Mori , Frederico Fiuza

We present a study of the parallel tempering (replica exchange) Monte Carlo method, with special focus on the feedback-optimized parallel tempering algorithm, used for generating an optimal set of simulation temperatures. This method is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-15 Krzysztof Lewandowski , Piotr Knychala , Michal Banaszak

We investigate in this work the effects of interaction on the fluctuation of empirical measures. The systems with positive definite interaction potentials tend to exhibit smaller fluctuation compared to the fluctuation in standard Monte…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Lei Li , Jiaheng Chen

We simulate structural phase behavior of polymer-grafted colloidal particles by molecular Monte Carlo technique. Interparticle potential, which has a finite repulsive square-step outside a rigid core of the colloid, was previously confirmed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-19 Yuki Norizoe , Toshihiro Kawakatsu

We consider here a blend made of two types of polymers, $A$ and $B$, of different chemical nature. At high temperature the homogeneous mixture is cross-linked. As the temperature is lowered, the two species try to segregate but are kept…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Edilson Vargas , Marcia C. Barbosa

We study a solution of interacting semiflexible polymers with curvature energy in poor-solvent conditions on the d-dimensional cubic lattice using mean-field theory and Monte Carlo computer simulations. Building upon past studies on a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-02 Davide Marcato , Achille Giacometti , Amos Maritan , Angelo Rosa

We present a model for molecular materials made up of polar and polarizable molecular units. A simple two state model is adopted for each molecular site and only classical intermolecular interactions are accounted for, neglecting any…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Francesca Terenziani , Anna Painelli

The dependence on volume fraction $\varphi$ of the Flory-Huggins $\chi_{\mathrm{wp}}\left(\varphi\right)$ describing the free energy of mixing of polymers in water is obtained by exploiting the connection of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-23 M. I. Chaudhari , L. R. Pratt , M. E. Paulaitis

The well known FPU phenomenon (lack of attainment of equipartition of the mode--energies at low energies, for some exceptional initial data) suggests that the FPU model does not have the mixing property at low energies. We give numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-03-12 A. Carati , L. Galgani , A. Giorgilli , S. Paleari

Highly size-asymmetrical fluid mixtures arise in a variety of physical contexts, notably in suspensions of colloidal particles to which much smaller particles have been added in the form of polymers or nanoparticles. Conventional schemes…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-01-14 Douglas J. Ashton , Jiwen Liu , Erik Luijten , Nigel B. Wilding

We describe a method to evaluate electronic forces by Path Integral Monte Carlo (PIMC). Electronic correlations, as well as thermal effects, are included naturally in this method. For fermions, a restricted approach is used to avoid the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Fenghua Zong , D. M. Ceperley

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

In this work we present the general phase behavior of short tubelike flexible polymers. The geometric thickness constraint is implemented through the concept of the global radius of curvature. We use sophisticated Monte Carlo sampling…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-07-20 Thomas Vogel , Thomas Neuhaus , Michael Bachmann , Wolfhard Janke

We introduce a simplified method to model the interatomic interactions of high entropy alloys based on a lookup table of cluster energies. These interactions are employed in replica exchange Monte Carlo simulations with histogram analysis…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-06 Andrew D. Kim , Michael Widom

The description of fluid mixtures molecular behavior is significant for various industry fields due to the complex composition of fluid found in nature. Statistical mechanics approaches use intermolecular interaction potential to predict…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Irina Nesterova , Yuriy Kanygin , Pavel Lomovitskiy , Aleksey Khlyupin