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Objective. Prompt-gamma imaging encompasses several approaches for online monitoring of beam range or deposited dose distribution in proton therapy. We test one of the imaging techniques - a coded mask approach - both experimentally and via…

We present a method for optimizing the location of the fermion ground-state nodes using a combination of diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) and projected gradient descent (PGD). A PGD iteration shifts the parameters of an arbitrary node-fixing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 John McFarland , Efstratios Manousakis

Modern graphics processing units (GPUs) provide impressive computing resources, which can be accessed conveniently through the CUDA programming interface. We describe how GPUs can be used to considerably speed up molecular dynamics (MD)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-04-08 Peter H. Colberg , Felix Höfling

In the last few years we have been developing a Monte Carlo simulation method to cope with systems of many electrons and ions in the Born-Oppenheimer (BO) approximation, the Coupled Electron-Ion Monte Carlo Method (CEIMC). Electronic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carlo Pierleoni , David M. Ceperley

Cell segmentation in microscopy is a challenging problem, since cells are often asymmetric and densely packed. This becomes particularly challenging for extremely large images, since manual intervention and processing time can make…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-19 Mahsa Lotfollahi , Sebastian Berisha , Leila Saadatifard , Laura Montier , Jokubas Ziburkus , David Mayerich

Particle-in-cell methods with stochastic collision models are commonly used to simulate collisional plasma dynamics, with applications ranging from hypersonic flight to semiconductor manufacturing. Code verification of such methods is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Brian A. Freno , William J. McDoniel , Christopher H. Moore , Neil R. Matula

The Kernel Polynomial Method (KPM) is one of the fast diagonalization methods used for simulations of quantum systems in research fields of condensed matter physics and chemistry. The algorithm has a difficulty to be parallelized on a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-05-30 Shixun Zhang , Shinichi Yamagiwa , Masahiko Okumura , Seiji Yunoki

In this proceedings we present MadFlow, a new framework for the automation of Monte Carlo (MC) simulation on graphics processing units (GPU) for particle physics processes. In order to automate MC simulation for a generic number of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Stefano Carrazza , Juan Cruz-Martinez , Marco Rossi , Marco Zaro

In recent years, the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm has been found to work more efficiently compared to other popular Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods (such as random walk Metropolis-Hastings) in generating samples from a…

Computation · Statistics 2014-02-18 Andrew L. Beam , Sujit K. Ghosh , Jon Doyle

Objective: To assess the accuracy and computational performance of a stochastic differential equation (SDE)--based model for proton beam dose calculation by benchmarking against Geant4 in simplified phantom geometries. Approach: Building on…

Monte Carlo methods are critical to many routines in quantitative finance such as derivatives pricing, hedging and risk metrics. Unfortunately, Monte Carlo methods are very computationally expensive when it comes to running simulations in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Francois Belletti , Davis King , Kun Yang , Roland Nelet , Yusef Shafi , Yi-Fan Chen , John Anderson

Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations with Monte-Carlo collisions are used in plasma science to explore a variety of kinetic effects. One major problem is the long run-time of such simulations. Even on modern computer systems, PIC codes take a…

Accurate dose calculation on cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) images is essential for modern proton treatment planning workflows, particularly when accounting for inter-fractional anatomical changes in adaptive treatment scenarios.…

In this study, the absorbed dose calculation for the cerebral region is refined using the Geant4 software, along with the ROOT and GATE programs. This approach provides a detailed statistical analysis of positron trajectories within a water…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Walter Sabalza-Castillejo , Miguel Martin-Landrove

Space radiation remains one of the primary hazards to spaceflight crews. The unique nature of the intravehicular radiation spectrum makes prediction of biological outcomes difficult, with computational simulation-based efforts stymied by…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-08-24 Chesal MA , Blue RS , Aunon-Chancellor SA , Chancellor JC

We show how to accelerate the direct solution of the Boltzmann equation using Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). In order to fully exploit the computational power of the GPU, we choose a method of solution which combines a finite difference…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-08-18 Aldo Frezzotti , Gian Pietro Ghiroldi , Livio Gibelli

In this work, we address the systematic biases and random errors stemming from finite step sizes encountered in diffusion simulations. We introduce the Effective Geometry Monte Carlo (EG-MC) simulation algorithm which modifies the geometry…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Fatih Dinc , Leander Thiele , Bayram Cevdet Akdeniz

We present a scalable dissipative particle dynamics simulation code, fully implemented on the Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) using a hybrid CUDA/MPI programming model, which achieves 10-30 times speedup on a single GPU over 16 CPU cores…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Yu-Hang Tang , George Em Karniadakis

We present a GPU-accelerated method for muon transport based on histogram sampling that delivers orders of magnitude faster performance than CPU-based Geant4 simulation. Our method employs precomputed histograms of momentum loss and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Luis Felipe P. Cattelan , Shah Rukh Qasim , Patrick H. Owen , Nicola Serra

In plasma edge simulations, the behavior of neutral particles is often described by a Boltzmann--BGK equation. Solving this kinetic equation and estimating the moments of its solution are essential tasks, typically carried out using Monte…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Zhirui Tang , Julian Koellermeier , Emil Løvbak , Giovanni Samaey