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Reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo (RJMCMC) proposals that achieve reasonable acceptance rates and mixing are notoriously difficult to design in most applications. Inspired by recent advances in deep neural network-based normalizing…

Computation · Statistics 2023-02-28 Laurence Davies , Robert Salomone , Matthew Sutton , Christopher Drovandi

We propose a method of simulation that is based on the averaging of formal solutions of the transfer equation by taking the integral by the Monte Carlo method. This method is used to compute two models, which correspond to the limiting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maxim A. Voronkov

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

Discrete diffusion models have become highly effective across various domains. However, real-world applications often require the generative process to adhere to certain constraints. To this end, we propose a Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zijing Ou , Chinmay Pani , Yingzhen Li

Transport coefficients associated with the mass flux of impurities immersed in a moderately dense granular gas of hard disks or spheres described by the inelastic Enskog equation are obtained by means of the Chapman-Enskog expansion. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 Vicente Garzo , Francisco Vega Reyes

Phonon Monte Carlo (PMC) is a versatile stochasic technique for solving the Boltzmann transport equation for phonons. It is particularly well suited for analyzing thermal transport in structures that have real-space roughness or are too…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-26 L. N. Maurer , S. Mei , I. Knezevic

EIRENE [1] is a Monte Carlo neutral transport solver heavily used in the fusion community. EIRENE does not implement domain decomposition, making it impossible to use for simulations where the grid data does not fit on one compute node (see…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Oskar Lappi , Huw Leggate , Yannick Marandet , Jan Åström , Keijo Heljanko , Dmitriy V. Borodin

Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) based on fixed-node approximation has enjoyed significant developments in the past decades and become one of the go-to methods when accurate ground state energy of molecules and materials is needed. The remaining…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-07 Weiluo Ren , Weizhong Fu , Xiaojie Wu , Ji Chen

Frequency-dependent/hybrid approaches for stellar irradiation are of primary importance in numerical simulations of massive star formation. We seek to compare outflow and accretion mechanisms in star formation simulations. We investigate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 R. Mignon-Risse , M. González , B. Commerçon , J. Rosdahl

Context: Radiative transfer modelling of expanding stellar envelopes is an important task in their analysis. To account for inhomogeneities and deviations from spherical symmetry, it is necessary to develop a 3D approach to radiative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Jakub Fišák , Jiří Kubát , Brankica Kubátová , Markus Kromer , Jiří Krtička

We develop a formalism and present an algorithm for optimization of the trial wave-function used in fixed-node diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (DMC) methods. We take advantage of a basic property of the walker configuration distribution…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Fernando A. Reboredo , Randolph Q. Hood , Paul R. C. Kent

Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are algorithms for sampling probability distributions, commonly applied to the Boltzmann distribution in physical and chemical models such as protein folding and the Ising model. These methods enable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Aingeru Ramos , Jose A. Pascual , Javier Navaridas , Ivan Coluzza

Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) is one of the most accurate techniques available for calculating the electronic properties of molecules and materials, yet it often remains a challenge to economically compute forces using this technique. As a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Cancan Huang , Brenda M. Rubenstein

Diffusive molecular communications (DiMC) have recently gained attention as a candidate for nano- to micro- and macro-scale communications due to its simplicity and energy efficiency. As signal propagation is solely enabled by Brownian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Mustafa Can Gursoy , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari , Urbashi Mitra

Monte Carlo techniques based on indivisible energy packets are described for computing light curves and spectra for 3-D supernovae. The radiative transfer is time-dependent and includes all effects of O(v/c). Monte Carlo quantization is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. B. Lucy

We provide a preliminary comparison of the dispersion properties, specifically the time-amplification factor, the scaled group velocity and the error in the phase speed of four spatiotemporal discretization schemes utilized for solving the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-23 S. Singh , S. Sircar

We describe an efficient Monte Carlo algorithm for a restricted class of scattering problems in radiation transfer. This class includes many astrophysically interesting problems, including the scattering of ultraviolet and visible light by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alan M. Watson , William J. Henney

In this article, a complete radiative transfer approach for estimating incident photon flux density by actinometry is presented that opens the door to investigation of large-scale intensified photoreactors. The approach is based on an…

We introduce a Monte Carlo scheme for sampling bold-line diagrammatic series specifying an unknown function in terms of itself. The range of convergence of this bold(-line) diagrammatic Monte Carlo (BMC) is significantly broader than that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nikolay Prokof'ev , Boris Svistunov

The numerical simulation of rarefied gas mixture dynamics with disparate masses using the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method is slow, primarily because the time step is constrained by that of the lighter species, necessitating an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-26 Liyan Luo , Jianan Zeng , Yanbin Zhang , Wei Li , Qi Li , Lei Wu