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We will derive here the relaxation behavior of a simple quantum random matrix model. The aim is to derive the effective equations which rise when a random matrix interaction is taken in the weak coupling limit. The physical situation this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-11-15 Pedro Vidal , Günter Mahler

Two-component submonolayer growth on triangular lattice is qualitatively studied by kinetic Monte Carlo techniques. The hopping barrier governing surface diffusion of the atoms is estimated with an improved formula and using realistic pair…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-07-06 Robert Deak , Zoltan Neda , Peter B. Barna

In this work, we develop an atomistic, graph-based kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulation routine to predict crystal morphology. Within this routine, we encode the state of the supercell in a binary occupation vector and the topology of the…

Analytic and optimization methods for solving inverse kinematics (IK) problems have been deeply studied throughout the history of robotics. The two strategies have complementary strengths and weaknesses, but developing a unified approach to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Thomas Cohn , Lihan Tang , Alexandre Amice , Russ Tedrake

Existing methods for image alignment struggle in cases involving feature-sparse regions, extreme scale and field-of-view differences, and large deformations, often resulting in suboptimal accuracy. Robustness to these challenges can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Kanggeon Lee , Soochahn Lee , Kyoung Mu Lee

We implement a computer-assisted approach that, under appropriate conditions, allows the bifurcation analysis of the coarse dynamic behavior of microscopic simulators without requiring the explicit derivation of closed macroscopic equations…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexei G. Makeev , Dimitrios Maroudas , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

While recent work towards the development of tight-binding and ab-initio algorithms has focused on molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo methods can often lead to better results with relatively little effort. We present here a multi-step Monte…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Parthapratim Biswas , G. T. Barkema , Normand Mousseau , W. F. van der Weg

We introduce an off-lattice model with continuous particle distances and pair-potential interactions which allows for the efficient simulation of strained heteroepitaxial growth by means of kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulations. We discuss…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Florian Much

Cellular scale decision making is modulated by the dynamics of signalling molecules and their diffusive trajectories from a source to small absorbing sites on the cellular surface. Diffusive capture problems are computationally challenging…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Alan E. Lindsay , Andrew J. Bernoff

We present an accelerated algorithm that samples correctly the thermodynamic ensemble in complex systems where the dynamics is controlled by activation barriers. The efficiency of the thermodynamically-weighted activation-relaxation…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Normand Mousseau , G. T. Barkema

Atomistic rigid lattice Kinetic Monte Carlo is an efficient method for simulating nano-objects and surfaces at timescales much longer than those accessible by molecular dynamics. A laborious part of constructing any Kinetic Monte Carlo…

We propose a relax-and-round approach combined with a greedy search strategy for performing complex lattice basis reduction. Taking an optimization perspective, we introduce a relaxed version of the problem that, while still nonconvex, has…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-16 Marius Arvinte , Ahmed H. Tewfik

The link between the energy surface of bulk systems and their dynamical properties is generally difficult to establish. Using the activation-relaxation technique (ART nouveau), we follow the change in the barrier distribution of a model of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-18 Houssem Kallel , Normand Mousseau , François Schiettekatte

Structural and kinetic aspects of 2-D irreversible metal deposition under potentiostatic conditions are analyzed by means of dynamic Monte Carlo simulations employing embedded atom potentials for a model system. Three limiting models, all…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Cecilia Gimenez , Mario G. Del Popolo , Ezequiel P. M. Leiva

Lattice relaxation profoundly reshapes electronic structures in twisted materials. Prevailing treatments, however, typically rely on large-scale density functional theory (DFT), which is computationally costly and mechanistically opaque.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-17 Junxi Yu , Bingbing Wang , Cheng-Cheng Liu

For fully actuated rigid robots, kinematic inversion is a purely geometric problem, efficiently solved by closed-loop inverse kinematics (CLIK) schemes that compute joint configurations to position the robot body in space. For underactuated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Carina Veil , Moritz Flaschel , Ellen Kuhl , Cosimo Della Santina

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a crucial technology for many applications such as smart homes, surveillance, human assistance and health care. This technology utilises pattern recognition and can contribute to the development of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Farhad Nazari , Darius Nahavandi , Navid Mohajer , Abbas Khosravi

In this paper we propose a new class of coupling methods for the sensitivity analysis of high dimensional stochastic systems and in particular for lattice Kinetic Monte Carlo. Sensitivity analysis for stochastic systems is typically based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Georgios Arampatzis , Markos Katsoulakis

In this paper a new restarting method for Krylov subspace matrix exponential evaluations is proposed. Since our restarting technique essentially employs the residual, some convergence results for the residual are given. We also discuss how…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Mikhail A. Botchev , Leonid A. Knizhnerman

Kinetic Monte-Carlo simulation is applied to study the partial oxidation of methane over a nickel catalyst. Based on the Langmuir-Hinshelwood mechanism, the kinetic behavior of this reaction is analyzed and the results are compared with…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-13 Sirawit Pruksawan , Boonyarach Kitiyanan , Robert M. Ziff