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Periodic Boundary Conditions (PBC) introduce well-known lattice artifacts. We present a novel Pseudoperiodic Spherical Boundary Condition (SBC) that is perfectly isotropic. Through detailed comparative simulations, we demonstrate that SBC…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-11 Manuel Dedola , Ludovico Cademartiri

A theoretical framework is developped leading to a sound derivation of Periodic Boundary Conditions (PBCs) for the analysis of domains smaller then the Unit Cells (UCs), named reduced Unit Cells (rUCs), by exploiting non-orthogonal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-03-10 N. V. De Carvalho , S. T. Pinho , P. Robinson

We develop an algorithm for bosonic path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) simulations with periodic boundary conditions (PBC) that scales quadratically with the number of particles. Path integral methods are a powerful tool to simulate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Jacob Higer , Yotam M. Y. Feldman , Barak Hirshberg

Periodic boundary conditions (PBCs) for computing magnetic fields in repeating magnetic structures, e.g. in micromagnetic simulations, are typically imposed using the quasi periodic macrogeometry approach, where many copies of the simulated…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-13 Frederik Laust Durhuus , Andrea Roberto Insinga , Rasmus Bjørk

A Waveguide Port Boundary Condition (WPBC) based on the restriction of the approximation space is presented in the context of Finite Element Analysis. As well as reducing the computational domain in the same manner as the traditional WPBC,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-01 Francisco T. Orlandini , Philippe R. B. Devloo , Hugo E. Hernández-Figueroa

Artificial boundary conditions (BCs) play a ubiquitous role in numerical simulations of transport phenomena in several diverse fields, such as fluid dynamics, electromagnetism, acoustics, geophysics, and many more. They are essential for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-30 Friedemann Klass , Alessandro Gabbana , Andreas Bartel

We present rotating periodic boundary conditions (PBCs) for the simulation of nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) under uniaxial stretching flow (USF) or biaxial stretching flow (BSF). Such nonequilibrium flows need specialized PBCs…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-19 Matthew Dobson , Abdel Kader Geraldo

We derive equations for evaluating differential operators in transparent boundary conditions (TBCs) for a certain class of hyperbolic systems of second-order equations. This local part of TBCs can be used as approximate nonreflecting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-30 Ivan Sofronov

We provide a framework to build periodic boundary conditions on the pseudosphere (or hyperbolic plane), the infinite two-dimensional Riemannian space of constant negative curvature. Starting from the common case of periodic boundary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 François Sausset , Gilles Tarjus

Periodic boundary conditions are commonly applied in molecular dynamics simulations in the microcanonical (NVE), canonical (NVT) and isothermal-isobaric (NpT) ensembles. In their simplest application, a biological system of interest is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-09 Radek Erban , Yuichi Togashi

Projected Entangled Pair States (PEPS) are recognized as a potent tool for exploring two-dimensional quantum many-body systems. However, a significant challenge emerges when applying conventional PEPS methodologies to systems with periodic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-23 Shaojun Dong , Chao Wang , Hao Zhang , Meng Zhang , Lixin He

We present a novel efficient implementation of the flexible boundary condition (FBC) method, initially proposed by Sinclair et al., for large single-periodic problems. Efficiency is primarily achieved by constructing a hierarchical matrix…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-10-03 Max Hodapp

In this paper, we propose a new type of bulk-boundary correspondence as a generic approach to theoretically and experimentally detect fragile topological states. When the fragile phase can be written as a difference of a trivial atomic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Zhi-Da Song , Luis Elcoro , B. Andrei Bernevig

This paper reviews the state of the art of periodic boundary conditions (PBCs) in Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) simulations. The mathematical principles and 3D FDTD implementation details are systematically outlined. Techniques for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-06 Aaron J. Kogon , Costas D. Sarris

In recent decades, considerable research has been devoted to partial differential equations (PDEs) with dynamic boundary conditions. However, the physical interpretation of the parameters involved often remains unclear, which in turn limits…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Xiaobo Jing , Qi Wang

We present a new recipe for relativistic quantum simulation using the first quantisation approach, under periodic (PBC) and Dirichlet (DBC) boundary conditions. The wavefunction is discretised across a finite grid represented by system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Jaewoo Joo , Timothy P. Spiller , Kyunghyun Baek , Jeongho Bang

We introduce spiral boundary conditions (SBCs) as a useful tool for handling the shape of finite-size periodic clusters. Using SBCs, a lattice model for more than two dimensions can be exactly projected onto a one-dimensional (1D) periodic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-13 Masahiro Kadosawa , Masaaki Nakamura , Yukinori Ohta , Satoshi Nishimoto

Real physical systems are only understood, experimentally or theoretically, to a finite resolution so in their analysis there is generally an ignorance of possible short-range phenomena. It is also well-known that the boundary conditions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-17 David M. Jacobs

It is well understood that boundary conditions (BCs) may cause global radial basis function (RBF) methods to become unstable for hyperbolic conservation laws (CLs). Here we investigate this phenomenon and identify the strong enforcement of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Jan Glaubitz , Anne Gelb

This paper is concerned with fast and accurate computation of exterior wave equations truncated via exact circular or spherical nonreflecting boundary conditions (NRBCs, which are known to be nonlocal in both time and space). We first…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-09-27 Li-Lian Wang , Bo Wang , Xiaodan Zhao
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