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We introduce a particle-based simulation method for granular material in interactive frame rates. We divide the simulation into two decoupled steps. In the first step, a relatively small number of particles is accurately simulated with a…

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Quantitative MRI (qMRI) offers tissue-specific biomarkers that can be tracked over time or compared across populations; however, its adoption in clinical research is hindered by significant computational demands of parameter estimation.…

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We present a flow-based method for simulating and calculating nucleation rates of first-order phase transitions in scalar field theory on a lattice. Motivated by recent advancements in machine learning tools, particularly normalizing flows…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-05-30 Yang Bai , Ting-Kuo Chen

The Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method is widely employed for simulating rarefied nonequilibrium gas flows. With advances in aerospace engineering and micro/nano-scale technologies, gas flows exhibit the coexistence of rarefied and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Hao Jin , Sha Liu , Sirui Yang , Junzhe Cao , Congshan Zhuo , Chengwen Zhong

Sequential robot manipulation tasks require finding collision-free trajectories that satisfy geometric constraints across multiple object interactions in potentially high-dimensional configuration spaces. Solving these problems in real-time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Lucas Chen , Shrutheesh Raman Iyer , Zachary Kingston

The discrete time path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) with a one-particle density matrix approximation is applied to study the quantum phase transition in the coupled double-well chain. To improve the convergence properties, the exact action…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Dong-Hee Kim , Yu-Cheng Lin , Heiko Rieger

Computer hardware costs are the limiting factor in producing highly accurate radiation dose calculations on convenient time scales. Because of this, large-scale, full Monte Carlo simulations and other resource intensive algorithms are often…

Medical Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 Roy W. Keyes , Christian Romano , Dorian Arnold , Shuang Luan

Objective: To assess the accuracy and computational performance of a stochastic differential equation (SDE)--based model for proton beam dose calculation by benchmarking against Geant4 in simplified phantom geometries. Approach: Building on…

Three-dimensional neutron transport calculations using the Method of Characteristics (MOC) are highly regarded for their exceptional computational efficiency, precision, and stability. Nevertheless, when dealing with extensive-scale…

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We accelerated an {\it ab-initio} QMC electronic structure calculation by using GPGPU. The bottleneck of the calculation for extended solid systems is replaced by CUDA-GPGPU subroutine kernels which build up spline basis set expansions of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-08-20 Yutaka Uejima , Ryo Maezono

The expedient design of precision components in aerospace and other high-tech industries requires simulations of physical phenomena often described by partial differential equations (PDEs) without exact solutions. Modern design problems…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-01-11 Daniel J Magee , Kyle E Niemeyer

Particle Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods are used to carry out inference in non-linear and non-Gaussian state space models, where the posterior density of the states is approximated using particles. Current approaches usually perform…

Computation · Statistics 2019-09-30 Eduardo F. Mendes , Christopher K. Carter , David Gunawan , Robert Kohn

A new approach to study the response of portable gamma detector to terrestrial gamma ray is proposed. This approach is based on two-stage Monte Carlo simulation. First, the probability distributions of the phase space coordinates of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-09 Boubaker Askri

PURPOSE: Permanent breast seed implant (PBSI) using 103Pd is emerging as an effective adjuvant radiation technique for early-stage breast cancer. However, clinical dose evaluations follow the water-based TG-43 approach with its considerable…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-05-27 Stephen G. Deering , Michelle Hilts , Deidre Batchelar , Juanita Crook , Rowan M. Thomson

We introduce $\texttt{GPUmonty}$, a CUDA/C-based Monte Carlo radiative transfer code accelerated using graphics processing units (GPUs). $\texttt{GPUmonty}$ derives from the CPU-based code $\texttt{grmonty}$ and offloads the most…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-15 Pedro Naethe Motta , Rodrigo Nemmen , Abhishek V. Joshi

A new variant of the pencil-beam (PB) algorithm for dose distribution calculation for radiotherapy with protons and heavier ions, the grid-dose spreading (GDS) algorithm, is proposed. The GDS algorithm is intrinsically faster than…

Medical Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 Nobuyuki Kanematsu , Shunsuke Yonai , Azusa Ishizaki

Simulations of physical phenomena are essential to the expedient design of precision components in aerospace and other high-tech industries. These phenomena are often described by mathematical models involving partial differential equations…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-01-05 Daniel Magee , Kyle E Niemeyer

We introduce a new path integral Monte Carlo method for investigating nonadiabatic systems in thermal equilibrium and demonstrate an approach to reducing stochastic error. We derive a general path integral expression for the partition…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-07-11 Neil Raymond , Dmitri Iouchtchenko , Pierre-Nicholas Roy , Marcel Nooijen

The direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method is widely used to describe rarefied gas flows. The DSMC method accounts for the transport and collisions of computational particles, resulting in higher computational costs in the continuum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Joonbeom Kim , Eunji Jun

Temporally modulated pulsed radiotherapy (TMPRT) delivers conventional fraction doses of radiation using temporally separated pulses of low doses (<30 cGy) yielding fraction-effective dose rates of around 6.7 cGy/min with the goal to…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Christian Velten , Adam Bayliss , Jiayi Huang , Wolfgang A. Tomé