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Occupied diffusions offer a Markovian framework for path-dependent dynamics by lifting the state space with a flow of occupation measures. Because this additional feature is infinite-dimensional, the simulation of these processes remains…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Valentin Tissot-Daguette , Xin Zhang

Using a path integral formulation for correlation functions of stochastic partial differential equations based on the Onsager-Machlup approach, we show how, by introducing a composite auxiliary field one can generate an auxiliary field loop…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-12 Fred Cooper

The probability of trajectories of weakly diffusive processes to remain in the tubular neighbourhood of a smooth path is given by the Freidlin-Wentzell-Graham theory of large deviations. The most probable path between two states (the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-12 Lukas Kikuchi , Rajesh Singh , Mike E. Cates , Ronojoy Adhikari

Sampled structure sequences obtained, for instance, from real-time reactivity explorations or first-principles molecular dynamics simulations contain valuable information about chemical reactivity. Eventually, such sequences allow for the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Michael A. Heuer , Alain C. Vaucher , Moritz P. Haag , Markus Reiher

Conventional rendering techniques are primarily designed and optimized for single-frame rendering. In practical applications, such as scene editing and animation rendering, users frequently encounter scenes where only a small portion is…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Bing Xu , Tzu-Mao Li , Iliyan Georgiev , Trevor Hedstrom , Ravi Ramamoorthi

In current studies of mean-field quantum spin systems, much attention is placed on the calculation of the ground-state energy and the excitation gap, especially the latter which plays an important role in quantum annealing. In pure systems,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-03-26 Yang Wei Koh

A common problem that affects simulations of complex systems within the computational physics and chemistry communities is the so-called sampling problem or rare event problem where proper sampling of energy landscapes is impeded by the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-03-06 Benjamin Pampel , Simon Holbach , Lisa Hartung , Omar Valsson

We derive the distribution function of work performed by a harmonic force acting on a uniformly dragged Brownian particle subjected to a rotational torque. Following the Onsager and Machlup's functional integral approach, we obtain the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-29 Bappa Saha , Sutapa Mukherji

Finding and sampling multiple reaction channels for molecular transitions remains an important challenge in physical chemistry. Here we show that the weighted ensemble (WE) path sampling method can readily sample multiple channels. In a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-02-17 Bin W. Zhang , David Jasnow , Daniel M. Zuckerman

This paper proposes a novel diffusion-based posterior sampling method within a plug-and-play (PnP) framework. Our approach constructs a probability transport from an easy-to-sample terminal distribution to the target posterior, using a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-10 Jinyuan Chang , Chenguang Duan , Yuling Jiao , Ruoxuan Li , Jerry Zhijian Yang , Cheng Yuan

Mean-field, ensemble-chain, and adaptive samplers have historically been viewed as distinct approaches to Monte Carlo sampling. In this paper, we present a unifying {two-system} framework that brings all three under one roof. In our…

Computation · Statistics 2026-05-13 James Chok , Myung Won Lee , Daniel Paulin , Geoffrey M. Vasil

We discuss a Monte Carlo Markov Chain (MCMC) procedure for the random sampling of some one-dimensional lattice paths with constraints, for various constraints. We show that an approach inspired by optimal transport allows us to bound…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-07-28 Lucas Gerin

This paper addresses the trajectory planning problem for automated vehicle on-ramp highway merging. To tackle this challenge, we extend our previous work on trajectory planning at unsignalized intersections using Partially Observable Markov…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Adam Kollarčík , Zdeněk Hanzálek

The equilibrium thermodynamics of the two dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Model is derived by means of a path integral method which accounts for the variable range of the electronic hopping processes. While the lattice degrees of freedom…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Marco Zoli

Target search by active agents in rugged energy landscapes has remained a challenge because standard enhanced sampling methods do not apply to irreversible dynamics. We overcome this non-equilibrium rare-event problem by developing an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-20 Luigi Zanovello , Michele Caraglio , Thomas Franosch , Pietro Faccioli

Direct numerical evaluation of the real-time path integral has a well-known sign problem that makes convergence exponentially slow. One promising remedy is to use Picard-Lefschetz theory to flow the domain of the field variables into the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-06-19 Zong-Gang Mou , Paul M. Saffin , Anders Tranberg , Simon Woodward

To accelerate the thermal equilibrium sampling of multi-level quantum systems, the infinite swapping limit of a recently proposed multi-level ring polymer representation is investigated. In the infinite swapping limit, the ring polymer…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Jianfeng Lu , Zhennan Zhou

Transition pathways of stochastic dynamical systems are typically approximated by instantons. Here we show, using a dynamical system containing two competing pathways, that at low-to-intermediate temperatures, instantons can fail to capture…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-05 Lukas Kikuchi , Ronojoy Adhikari , Julian Kappler

By recursively solving the underlying Schr\" odinger equation, we set up an efficient systematic approach for deriving analytic expressions for discretized effective actions. With this we obtain discrete short-time propagators for both one…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-08-08 Antun Balaz , Aleksandar Bogojevic , Ivana Vidanovic , Axel Pelster

Characterizing thermally activated transitions in high-dimensional rugged energy surfaces is a very challenging task for classical computers. Here, we develop a quantum annealing scheme to solve this problem. First, the task of finding the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-18 Philipp Hauke , Giovanni Mattiotti , Pietro Faccioli