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Multi-physics simulations play a crucial role in understanding complex systems. However, their computational demands are often prohibitive due to high dimensionality and complex interactions, such that actual calculations often rely on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Stefan Meinecke , Malte Selig , Felix Köster , Andreas Knorr , Kathy Lüdge

We introduce Perceval, an open-source software platform for simulating and interfacing with discrete-variable photonic quantum computers, and describe its main features and components. Its Python front-end allows photonic circuits to be…

Physical systems, characterized by an ensemble of interacting elementary constituents, can be represented and studied by different algebras of observables or operators. For example, a fully polarized electronic system can be investigated by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Somma , G. Ortiz , J. E. Gubernatis , E. Knill , R. Laflamme

Quantum computing, an innovative computing system carrying prominent processing rate, is meant to be the solutions to problems in many fields. Among these realms, the most intuitive application is to help chemical researchers correctly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Qingchun Wang , Huan-Yu Liu , Qing-Song Li , Jianyu Zhao , Qiankun Gong , Ye Li , Yu-Chun Wu , Guo-Ping Guo

Systems composed of soft matter (e.g., liquids, polymers, foams, gels, colloids, and most biological materials) are ubiquitous in science and engineering, but molecular simulations of such systems pose particular computational challenges,…

We outline an unified introduction to the evolution equations of classical and quantum systems intended for a high school students audience. The attempt consists in circumventing the lack of mathematical knowledge with the use of simplified…

Physics Education · Physics 2017-06-01 Emilio Balzano , Eliana D'Ambrosio , Rodolfo Figari

Based on the Arduino development platform, Plasduino is an open-source data acquisition framework specifically designed for educational physics experiments. The source code, schematics and documentation are in the public domain under a GPL…

The design of new devices and experiments in science and engineering has historically relied on the intuitions of human experts. This credo, however, has changed. In many disciplines, computer-inspired design processes, also known as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Mario Krenn , Manuel Erhard , Anton Zeilinger

In order to understand the physics phenomea on the fundamental aspects, the software simulations are a good exercise to succed in this way. Some work of heat transport and molecular physics laboratory are studied in a comparative mode…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Gabriel Murariu , Dorina Toma

A physical system is determined by a finite set of initial conditions and "laws" represented by equations. The system is computable if we can solve the equations in all instances using a "finite body of mathematical knowledge". In this…

In this paper we present the development of an open-source simulation toolbox, PowerSimulationsDynamics.jl, to study the dynamic response of power systems, focusing on the requirements to model systems with high penetrations of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Jose Daniel Lara , Rodrigo Henriquez-Auba , Matthew Bossart , Duncan S. Callaway , Clayton Barrows

Characterizing quantum processes is essential for unlocking the potential of quantum devices. However, standard quantum process tomography is resource-intensive and becomes infeasible on large-scale systems. Despite alternative approaches…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Hao Zhan , Zongbo Bao , Zekun Ye , Qianyi Wang , Minghao Mi , Penghui Yao , Lijian Zhang

Recent advancements in parallel simulation and successful robotic applications are spurring a resurgence in sampling-based model predictive control. To build on this progress, however, the robotics community needs common tooling for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Albert H. Li , Brandon Hung , Aaron D. Ames , Jiuguang Wang , Simon Le Cleac'h , Preston Culbertson

Scenic is an open-source JAX library with a focus on Transformer-based models for computer vision research and beyond. The goal of this toolkit is to facilitate rapid experimentation, prototyping, and research of new vision architectures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Mostafa Dehghani , Alexey Gritsenko , Anurag Arnab , Matthias Minderer , Yi Tay

Computer models of humans are ubiquitous throughout computer animation and computer vision. However, these models rarely represent the dynamics of human motion, as this requires adding a complex layer that solves body motion in response to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Pablo Ramón , Cristian Romero , Javier Tapia , Miguel A. Otaduy

Writing and argumentation are critical to both professional physics and physics education. However, the skill of making an extended argument in writing is often overlooked in physics classrooms, apart from certain practices like lab…

Physics Education · Physics 2020-06-19 Tor Ole B. Odden , John Burk

With the aim of finding ways that can lead to solving the problem of learning the exact sciences and involving the university student in a participatory and active way during the semester period with the help of new technologies, the…

Physics Education · Physics 2023-08-17 Guillermo Jose Navarro del Toro

Teaching object-oriented programming in an introductory programming course poses considerable challenges to the instructor. An often advocated approach to meeting this challenge is the use of a simple, object-oriented graphics library. We…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Bruce R. Childers , James P. Cohoon , Jack W. Davidson , Peter Valle

"Computational experiments" use code and interactive visualizations to convey mathematical and physical concepts in an intuitive way, and are increasingly used to support ex cathedra lecturing in scientific and engineering disciplines.…

At the intersection of what I call uncomputable art and computational epistemology, a form of experimental philosophy, we find an exciting and promising area of science related to causation with an alternative, possibly best possible,…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Hector Zenil