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Predicting effective thermal conductivity by solving a Partial Differential Equation (PDE) defined on a high-resolution Representative Volume Element (RVE) is a computationally intensive task. In this paper, we tackle the task by proposing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Changqing Ye , Shubin Fu , Eric T. Chung

In this paper, a cell based smoothed finite element method with discrete shear gap technique is employed to study the static bending, free vibration, mechanical and thermal buckling behaviour of functionally graded material (FGM) plates.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-21 S Natarajan , AJM Ferreira , S Bordas , E Carrera , M Cinefra , AM Zenkour

Using experiments on a colloidal particle trapped in an optical tweezer, we confirm a recent proposal to increase the effective mobility or clock rate of systems described by Langevin dynamics, by simultaneously scaling deterministic forces…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-05 Prithviraj Basak , Stephen Whitelam , John Bechhoefer

Nonlinear thermoelastic systems play a crucial role in understanding thermal conductivity, stresses, elasticity, and temperature interactions. This research focuses on finding solutions to these systems in their fractional forms, which is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Qasim Khan

We propose a new method for computing the temperature dependence of the heat capacity in complex molecular systems. The proposed scheme is based on the use of the Langevin equation with low frequency color noise. We obtain the temperature…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sahin Buyukdagli , Alexander V. Savin , Bambi Hu

Unfitted finite element methods, like CutFEM, have traditionally been implemented in a matrix-based fashion, where a sparse matrix is assembled and later applied to vectors while solving the resulting linear system. With the goal of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-15 Maximilian Bergbauer , Peter Munch , Wolfgang A. Wall , Martin Kronbichler

Some algorithms for the numerically exact treatment of fermion determinants are summarised. This is not supposed to be a review, rather a concise handbook. The audience is expected to have a basic understanding of how to put fermions on a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Johann Ostmeyer

An extension of the multi-level hp Finite Cell Method is proposed for the simulation of thermoviscoplastic problems with temperature-dependent material behavior. The approach combines hierarchical adaptive refinement with a non-negative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Jan Niklas Schmäke , Oliver Wege , Martin Ruess

Local domain structures of ferroelectrics have been studied extensively using various modes of scanning probes at the nanoscale, including piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) and Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM), though none of these…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-20 Ehsan Nasr Esfahani , Xiaoyan Liu , Jiangyu Li

We present a new time-dependent Density Functional approach to study the relaxational dynamics of an assembly of interacting particles subject to thermal noise. Starting from the Langevin stochastic equations of motion for the velocities of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Pedro Tarazona

We consider the problem of approximating the von Neumann entropy of a large, sparse, symmetric positive semidefinite matrix $A$, defined as $\operatorname{tr}(f(A))$ where $f(x)=-x\log x$. After establishing some useful properties of this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-23 Michele Benzi , Michele Rinelli , Igor Simunec

Analytic expressions for the energy eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of a one-dimensional harmonic crystal are obtained. The average energy and density profiles are obtained numerically as a function of temperature. A surprisingly large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-30 Phil Attard

Using Matrix Theory as a concrete example of a fundamental holographic theory, we show that the emergent macroscopic spacetime displays a new macroscopic quantum structure, holographic geometry, and a new observable phenomenon, holographic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-30 Craig J. Hogan , Mark G. Jackson

Factorization of matrices where the rank of the two factors diverges linearly with their sizes has many applications in diverse areas such as unsupervised representation learning, dictionary learning or sparse coding. We consider a setting…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-08-11 Antoine Maillard , Florent Krzakala , Marc Mézard , Lenka Zdeborová

We characterize real functions $f$ on an interval $(-\alpha,\alpha)$ for which the entrywise matrix function $[a_{ij}] \mapsto [f(a_{ij})]$ is positive, monotone and convex, respectively, in the positive semidefiniteness order. Fractional…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-10-09 Fumio Hiai

Numerical simulations based on electronic structure calculations are finding ever growing applications in many areas of physics. A major limiting factor is however the cubic scaling of the algorithms used. Building on previous work [F. R.…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Florian R. Krajewski , Michele Parrinello

We present an exact functional formalism to deal with linear Langevin equations with arbitrary memory kernels and driven by any noise structure characterized through its characteristic functional. No others hypothesis are assumed over the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 A. A. Budini , M. O. Caceres

A novel and effective formulation that combines the eXtended IsoGeometric Approach (XIGA) and Higher-order Shear Deformation Theory (HSDT) is proposed to study the free vibration of cracked Functionally Graded Material (FGM) plates. Herein,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Loc V. Tran , Vinh Phu Nguyen , M. Abdel Wahab , H. Nguyen-Xuan

Because tensor data appear more and more frequently in various scientific researches and real-world applications, analyzing the relationship between tensor features and the univariate outcome becomes an elementary task in many fields. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Jiaqi Zhang , Beilun Wang

Multiresolution Matrix Factorization (MMF) was recently introduced as a method for finding multiscale structure and defining wavelets on graphs/matrices. In this paper we derive pMMF, a parallel algorithm for computing the MMF…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-07-17 Risi Kondor , Nedelina Teneva , Pramod K. Mudrakarta