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The free energy landscapes of several fundamental processes are characterized by high barriers separating long-lived metastable states. In order to explore these type of landscapes enhanced sampling methods are used. While many such methods…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-12 Jayashrita Debnath , Michele Invernizzi , Michele Parrinello

In the replica-exchange molecular dynamics method, where constant-temperature molecular dynamics simulations are performed in each replica, one usually rescales the momentum of each particle after replica exchange. This rescaling method had…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-04-14 Yoshiharu Mori , Yuko Okamoto

Score-based diffusion models have proven effective in image generation and have gained widespread usage; however, the underlying factors contributing to the performance disparity between stochastic and deterministic (i.e., the probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yuji Hirono , Akinori Tanaka , Kenji Fukushima

Using a path integral approach, we derive an analytical solution of a nonlinear and singular Langevin equation, which has been introduced previously by P.-G. de Gennes as a simple phenomenological model for the stick-slip motion of a solid…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Baule , E. G. D. Cohen , H. Touchette

In finite-size scaling analyses of Monte Carlo simulations of second-order phase transitions one often needs an extended temperature/energy range around the critical point. By combining the replica-exchange algorithm with cluster updates…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-08-20 Wolfhard Janke , Elmar Bittner

The interplay between information, dissipation, and control is reshaping our understanding of thermodynamics in feedback-regulated systems. We develop the informational Onsager-Machlup principle, a generalized variational framework that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-30 Kento Yasuda , Kenta Ishimoto , Shigeyuki Komura

Onsager's variational principle (OVP) provides us with a systematic way to derive dynamical equations for various soft matter and active matter. By reformulating the Onsager-Machlup variational principle (OMVP), which is a time-global…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-04 Kento Yasuda , Kenta Ishimoto , Shigeyuki Komura

This paper introduces a framework for simulating finite dimensional representations of (jump) diffusion sample paths over finite intervals, without discretisation error (exactly), in such a way that the sample path can be restored at any…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-02-10 Murray Pollock , Adam M. Johansen , Gareth O. Roberts

Diffusions are a fundamental class of models in many fields, including finance, engineering, and biology. Simulating diffusions is challenging as their sample paths are infinite-dimensional and their transition functions are typically…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-06-11 Paul A. Jenkins , Murray Pollock , Gareth O. Roberts , Michael Sørensen

We explore the distribution of paths followed in fluctuation-induced switching between coexisting stable states. We introduce a quantitative characteristic of the path distribution in phase space that does not require a priori knowledge of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. B. Chan , M. I. Dykman , C. Stambaugh

We present a method for the evaluation of time-dependent linear response functions for systems of active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles from unperturbed simulations. The method is inspired by the Malliavin weights sampling method proposed by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-05-24 Grzegorz Szamel

The variational principle of the Onsager-Machlup integral is used to describe the stochastic dynamics of a micromachine, such as an enzyme, characterized by odd elasticity. The obtained most probable path is found to become non-reciprocal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-12-08 Kento Yasuda , Akira Kobayashi , Li-Shing Lin , Yuto Hosaka , Isamu Sou , Shigeyuki Komura

Trapped Bosons exhibit fundamental physical phenomena and are potentially useful for quantum technologies. We present a method for simulating Bosons using path integral molecular dynamics. A main challenge for simulations is including all…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-05-07 Barak Hirshberg , Valerio Rizzi , Michele Parrinello

The density of states of continuous models is known to span many orders of magnitudes at different energies due to the small volume of phase space near the ground state. Consequently, the traditional Wang-Landau sampling which uses the same…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-11-20 Yang Wei Koh , Hwee Kuan Lee , Yutaka Okabe

We present a new, for plasma physics, highly efficient multilevel Monte Carlo numerical method for simulating Coulomb collisions. The method separates and optimally minimizes the finite-timestep and finite-sampling errors inherent in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 M. S. Rosin , L. F. Ricketson , A. M. Dimits , R. E. Caflisch , B. I. Cohen

We introduce and analyze free energy landscapes defined by associating to any point inside the sphere a free energy calculated on a thin spherical band around it, using many orthogonal replicas. This allows us to reinterpret, rigorously…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Eliran Subag

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a fundamental problem in robotics, requiring the computation of collision-free paths for multiple agents moving from their respective start to goal positions. Coordinating multiple agents in a shared…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Jinhao Liang , Jacob K. Christopher , Sven Koenig , Ferdinando Fioretto

This paper is concerned with transition paths within the framework of the overdamped Langevin dynamics model of chemical reactions. We aim to give an efficient description of typical transition paths in the small temperature regime. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Yulong Lu , Andrew M. Stuart , Hendrik Weber

The transport and distribution of charged particles are crucial in the study of many physical and biological problems. In this paper, we employ an Energy Variational Approach to derive the coupled Poisson-Nernst-Planck-Navier-Stokes system.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-10-14 Shixin Xu , Ping Sheng , Chun Liu

A new technique is explored for the Monte Carlo sampling of complex-valued distributions. The method is based on a heat bath approach where the conditional probability is replaced by a positive representation of it on the complex plane.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-10-19 L. L. Salcedo