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This paper is about well-posedness and realizability of the kinetic equation for gas-particle flows and its relationship to the Generalized Langevin Model (GLM) PDF equation. Previous analyses claim that this kinetic equation is ill-posed,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-21 M. W. Reeks , D. C. Swailes , A. D. Bragg

We initiate the study of utilizing Quantum Langevin Dynamics (QLD) to solve optimization problems, particularly those non-convex objective functions that present substantial obstacles for traditional gradient descent algorithms.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Zherui Chen , Yuchen Lu , Hao Wang , Yizhou Liu , Tongyang Li

We have applied path integral simulations, in combination with new ab initio based water potentials, to investigate nuclear quantum effects in liquid water. Because direct ab initio path integral simulations are computationally expensive, a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-04-21 Thomas Spura , Christopher John , Scott Habershon , Thomas D. Kühne

This review explores the Complex Langevin Method (CLM), a stochastic quantization technique designed to address the sign problem in quantum field theories with complex actions. Beginning with foundational principles, the review examines the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-04-04 Anosh Joseph , Arpith Kumar

Accurate simulation of nuclear quantum effects is essential for molecular modeling but expensive using path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD). We present GG-PI, a ring-polymer-based framework that combines generative modeling of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Weizhou Wang , Xuanxi Zhang , Jonathan Weare , Aaron R. Dinner

A generalized Langevin equation with quantum baths (QMD) for thermal transport is derived with the help of nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formulation. The exact relationship of the quasi-classical approximation to NEGF is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-23 Jian-Sheng Wang , Xiaoxi Ni , Jin-Wu Jiang

We investigate the use of stochastic methods for zero energy quantum scattering based on a path integral approach. With the application to the scattering of a projectile from a nuclear many body target in mind, we use the potential…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Justus H. Koch , Hubertus R. Mall , Stefan Lenz

We apply the Generalised Thimble approach to the computation of exact path integrals and correlators in real-time quantum field theory. We first investigate the details of the numerical implementation and ways of optimizing the algorithm.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-22 Simon Woodward , Paul M. Saffin , Zong-Gang Mou , Anders Tranberg

We propose a generalized Langevin dynamics (GLD) technique to construct non-Markovian particle-based coarse-grained models from fine-grained reference simulations and to efficiently integrate them. The proposed GLD model has the form of a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-11-16 Gerhard Jung , Martin Hanke , Friederike Schmid

We obtain the quantum Langevin equation (QLE) of a charged quantum particle moving in a harmonic potential in the presence of a uniform external magnetic field and linearly coupled to a quantum heat bath through momentum variables. The bath…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-04 Shamik Gupta , Malay Bandyopadhyay

Langevin dynamics has found a large number of applications in sampling, optimization and estimation. Preconditioning the gradient in the dynamics with the covariance - an idea that originated in literature related to solving estimation and…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Axel Ringh , Akash Sharma

We present an accelerated ``on-the-fly'' coupled-cluster path-integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) method for finite-temperature simulations in which electron correlation and nuclear quantum effects are treated simultaneously. The approach is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Thomas Spura , Hossam Elgabarty , Thomas D. Kühne

At room temperature, the quantum contribution to the kinetic energy of a water molecule exceeds the classical contribution by an order of magnitude. The quantum kinetic energy (QKE) of a water molecule is modulated by its local chemical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Lu Wang , Michele Ceriotti , Thomas E. Markland

The recently discovered supersymmetric generalizations of Langevin dynamics and Kramers equation can be utilized for the exploration of free energy landscapes of systems whose large time-scale separation hampers the usefulness of standard…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alessandro Mossa , Cecilia Clementi

We introduce the Velocity Jumps approach, denoted as JUMP, a new class of Molecular dynamics integrators, replacing the Langevin dynamics by a hybrid model combining a classical Langevin diffusion and a piecewise deterministic Markov…

Quantum effects due to the spatial delocalization of light atoms are treated in molecular simulation via the path integral technique. Among several methods, Path Integral (PI) Molecular Dynamics (MD) is nowadays a powerful tool to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Animesh Agarwal , Luigi Delle Site

Path integrals with complex actions are encountered for many physical systems ranging from spin- or mass-imbalanced atomic gases and graphene to quantum chromo-dynamics at finite density to the non-equilibrium evolution of quantum systems.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-09-01 Lukas Kades , Martin Gärttner , Thomas Gasenzer , Jan M. Pawlowski

A system-size expansion method is incorporated into the Doi-Peliti formalism for stochastic chemical kinetics. The basic idea of the incorporation is to introduce a new decomposition of unity associated with a so-called Cole-Hopf…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-16 Kazunori Itakura , Jun Ohkubo , Shin-ichi Sasa

A method is developed which speeds up averaging in quantum simulations where minus signs cause difficulties. A Langevin equation method in conjunction with a replication algorithm is used enabling one to average over a continuously varying…

comp-gas · Physics 2009-10-22 J. M. Deutsch

In this paper we study arbitrarily high-order energy-conserving methods for simulating the dynamics of a charged particle. They are derived and studied within the framework of Line Integral Methods (LIMs), previously used for defining…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-17 L. Brugnano , J. I. Montijano , L. Rández