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To better understand the capture process by a nanopore, we introduce an efficient Kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) algorithm that can simulate long times and large system sizes by mapping the dynamic of a point-like particle in a 3D spherically…

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We report the development of a new pattern-recognition scheme for the off- lattice self-learning kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) method that is simple and flex ible enough that it can be applied to all types of surfaces. In this scheme, to…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-04-22 Giridhar Nandipati , Abdelkader Kara , Syed Islamuddin Shah , Talat S. Rahman

This review article is intended as a practical guide for newcomers to the field of kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulations, and specifically to lattice KMC simulations as prevalently used for surface and interface applications. We will…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-04-05 Mie Andersen , Chiara Panosetti , Karsten Reuter

A kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) method is presented to simulate the electrodeposition of a metal on a single crystal surface of the same metal under galvanostatic conditions. This method utilizes the multi-body embedded-atom method (EAM)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 Tanyakarn Treeratanaphitak , Mark D. Pritzker , Nasser Mohieddin Abukhdeir

We report on early stages of submonolayer Ag island coarsening on Ag(111) surface at room temperature ($300$ K) carried out using realistic kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulations. We find that during early stages, coarsening proceeds as a…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 G. Nandipati , A. Kara , S. I. Shah , T. S. Rahman

In this comprehensive and detailed study, vacancy-mediated self-diffusion of A- and B-elements in 'triple-defect' B2-ordered ASB(1-S) binaries is simulated by means of a kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) algorithm involving atomic jumps to…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-16 Jan Betlej , Piotr Sowa , Rafal Kozubski , Graeme E. Murch , Irina V. Belova

Computer modeling of multicellular systems has been a valuable tool for interpreting and guiding in vitro experiments relevant to embryonic morphogenesis, tumor growth, angiogenesis and, lately, structure formation following the printing of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Elijah Flenner , Lorant Janosi , Bogdan Barz , Adrian Neagu , Gabor Forgacs , Ioan Kosztin

Morphologies of adsorbed molecular films are of interest in a wide range of applications. To study the epitaxial growth of these systems in computer simulations requires access to long time and length scales and one typically resorts to…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-07 William Janke , Thomas Speck

Machine-learning (ML) ans\"atze have greatly expanded the accuracy and reach of variational quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) calculations, in particular when exploring the manifold quantum phenomena exhibited by spin systems. However, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Manuel Gallego , Sebastián Roca-Jerat , David Zueco , Jesús Carrete

We present a kinetic Monte Carlo method for simulating chemical transformations specified by reaction rules, which can be viewed as generators of chemical reactions, or equivalently, definitions of reaction classes. A rule identifies the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2010-07-09 Jin Yang , Michael I. Monine , James R. Faeder , William S. Hlavacek

Particle-based kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of neutral particles is one of the major computational bottlenecks in tokamak scrape-off layer simulations. This computational cost comes from the need to resolve individual collision events in…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Oskar Lappi , Emil Løvbak , Thijs Steel , Giovanni Samaey

We develop a novel multilevel asymptotic-preserving Monte Carlo method, called Multilevel Kinetic-Diffusion Monte Carlo (ML-KDMC), for simulating the kinetic Boltzmann transport equation with a Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) collision…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-23 Bert Mortier , Pieterjan Robbe , Martine Baelmans , Giovanni Samaey

In plasma edge simulations, kinetic Monte Carlo (MC) is often used to simulate neutral particles and estimate source terms. For large-sized reactors, like ITER and DEMO, high particle collision rates lead to a substantial computational cost…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Zhirui Tang , Emil Løvbak , Julian Koellermeier , Giovanni Samaey

Kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulations are a powerful tool to study the dynamics of charge carriers in organic photovoltaics. However, the key characteristic of any photovoltaic device, its current-voltage ($J$-$V$) curve under solar…

A high-fidelity kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulation method (T. Treeratanaphitak, M. Pritzker, N. M. Abukhdeir, Electrochim. Acta 121 (2014) 407--414) using the semi-empirical multi-body embedded-atom method (EAM) potential has been…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-07-22 Tanyakarn Treeratanaphitak , Mark D. Pritzker , Nasser Mohieddin Abukhdeir

Two improved kMC models for investigations of the magnetic properties of finite-size atomic chains are presented. These models take the possible noncollinearity of magnetic moments into account. The spontaneous remagnetization of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Sergey Kolesnikov

While kinetic Monte Carlo simulations can provide long-time simulations of the dynamics of physical and chemical systems, it is not yet possible in general to identify the inverse Monte Carlo attempt frequency with a physical timescale.…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Abou Hamad , P. A. Rikvold , G. Brown

Many problems require to approximate an expected value by some kind of Monte Carlo (MC) sampling, e.g. molecular dynamics (MD) or simulation of stochastic reaction models (also termed kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC)). Often, we are furthermore…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-18 Sandra Döpking , Sebastian Matera

The Kinetic-Diffusion Monte Carlo (KDMC) method is a powerful tool for simulating neutral particles in fusion reactors. It is a hybrid fluid-kinetic method that is significantly faster than pure kinetic methods at the cost of a small bias…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Thijs Steel , Vince Maes , Giovanni Samaey

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