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The Algorithms for Lattice Fermions package provides a general code for the finite temperature auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo algorithm. The code is engineered to be able to simulate any model that can be written in terms of sums of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-17 Martin Bercx , Florian Goth , Johannes S. Hofmann , Fakher F. Assaad

We developed a Monte Carlo code that describes the resonant Lyman alpha line transfer in an optically thick, dusty, and static medium. The code was tested against the analytic formula derived by Neufeld (1990). We explain the line transfer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Sang-Hyeon Ahn , Hee-Won Lee , Hyung-Mok Lee

Anomalous radiative transfer (ART) theory is a generalization of classical radiative transfer theory. The present tutorial wants to show how Monte Carlo (MC) codes describing photons transport in anomalous media can be implemented. It is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-06-02 Tiziano Binzoni , Fabizio Martelli

Path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations are used to calculate the momentum distribution of the homogeneous electron gas at finite temperature. This is done by calculating the off-diagonal elements of the real-space density matrix,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Militzer , E. L. Pollock , D. M. Ceperley

We present Generative Monte Carlo (GMC), a novel paradigm for particle transport simulation that integrates generative artificial intelligence directly into the stochastic solution of the linear Boltzmann equation. By reformulating the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Joseph A. Farmer , Aidan Murray , Johannes Krotz , Ryan G. McClarren

During the past years several variance reduction techniques for Monte Carlo electron transport have been developed in order to reduce the electron computation time transport for absorbed dose distribution. We have implemented the Macro…

Medical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. A. Perles , A. de Almeida

We outline how auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) can leverage graphical processing units (GPUs) to accelerate the simulation of solid state sytems. By exploiting conservation of crystal momentum in the one- and two-electron…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-21 Fionn D. Malone , Shuai Zhang , Miguel A. Morales

Fixed node diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (FN-DMC) is an increasingly used computational approach for investigating the electronic structure of molecules, solids, and surfaces with controllable accuracy. It stands out among equally accurate…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-03 Andrea Zen , Jan Gerit Brandenburg , Angelos Michaelides , Dario Alfè

We explore Implicit Monte Carlo (IMC) and Discrete Diffusion Monte Carlo (DDMC) for radiation transport in high-velocity outflows with structured opacity. The IMC method is a stochastic computational technique for nonlinear radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Ryan T. Wollaeger , Daniel R. van Rossum , Carlo Graziani , Sean M. Couch , George C. Jordan , Donald Q. Lamb , Gregory A. Moses

The auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) method is a general numerical method for correlated many-electron systems, which is being increasingly applied in lattice models, atoms, molecules, and solids. Here we introduce the theory and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Hao Shi , Shiwei Zhang

We describe a Monte Carlo radiative transport code intended for calculating spectra of hot, optically thin plasmas in full general relativity. The version we describe here is designed to model hot accretion flows in the Kerr metric and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Joshua C. Dolence , Charles F. Gammie , Monika Moscibrodzka , Po Kin Leung

We present a new algorithm for radiative transfer-based on a statistical Monte Carlo approach-that does not suffer from teleportation effects, on the one hand, and yields smooth results, on the other hand. Implicit Monte Carlo (IMC)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-12 Elad Steinberg , Shay I. Heizler

Monte Carlo (MC) simulations play a pivotal role in diverse scientific and engineering domains, with applications ranging from nuclear physics to materials science. Harnessing the computational power of high-performance computing (HPC)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Yehonatan Fridman , Guy Tamir , Uri Steinitz , Gal Oren

OpenMC is an open source Monte Carlo neutral particle transport application that has recently been ported to GPU using the OpenMP target offloading model. We examine the performance of OpenMC at scale on the Frontier, Polaris, and Aurora…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-20 John Tramm , Paul Romano , Patrick Shriwise , Amanda Lund , Johannes Doerfert , Patrick Steinbrecher , Andrew Siegel , Gavin Ridley

Basic principles of particle-in-cell (PIC ) codes with the main application for plasma-based acceleration are discussed. The ab initio full electromagnetic relativistic PIC codes provide the most reliable description of plasmas. Their…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-10-06 Alexander Pukhov

Linear kinetic Monte Carlo particle transport models are frequently employed in fusion plasma simulations to quantify atomic and surface effects on the main plasma flow dynamics. Separate codes are used for transport of neutral particles…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. Seebacher , A. Kendl

We introduce Preconditioned Monte Carlo (PMC), a novel Monte Carlo method for Bayesian inference that facilitates efficient sampling of probability distributions with non-trivial geometry. PMC utilises a Normalising Flow (NF) in order to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 Minas Karamanis , Florian Beutler , John A. Peacock , David Nabergoj , Uros Seljak

We present an accurate numerical study of the equation of state of nuclear matter based on realistic nucleon--nucleon interactions by means of Auxiliary Field Diffusion Monte Carlo (AFDMC) calculations. The AFDMC method samples the spin and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Gandolfi , F. Pederiva , S. Fantoni , K. E. Schmidt

We present a novel Exchange Monte Carlo (EMC) method designed for application in continuous-space Path Integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations at finite temperature. Traditional PIMC methods for bosonic systems suffer from long…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-26 Xun Zhao , Synge Todo

Analog in-memory computing (AIMC) cores offers significant performance and energy benefits for neural network inference with respect to digital logic (e.g., CPUs). AIMCs accelerate matrix-vector multiplications, which dominate these…