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We use the Monte Carlo method to study the two types of devices used in the technique of single electron spectroscopy and get the C-V curve and I-V curve of them. The results compare well to approximate analytical expressions. Furthermore,…

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We developed an implicit Particle-in-cell/Monte Carlo model in two-dimensional and axisymmetric geometry for the simulations of the radio-frequency discharges, by introducing several numerical schemes which include variable weights,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-04-19 Hong-yu Wang , Wei Jiang , You-nian Wang

Radiative transfer simulation is an important tool that allows us to generate synthetic images of various astrophysical objects. In the case of complex three-dimensional geometries, a Monte Carlo-based method that simulates photon packages…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 A. Krieger , S. Wolf

We present a Monte Carlo rendering framework for the physically-accurate simulation of speckle patterns arising from volumetric scattering of coherent waves. These noise-like patterns are characterized by strong statistical properties, such…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-23 Chen Bar , Marina Alterman , Ioannis Gkioulekas , Anat Levin

We present a novel analysis method for measurements of polarization transferred in $A(\vec{e},e'\vec{N})$ experiments, which can be applied to other kinds of polarization measurements as well. In this method the polarization transfer…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-15 D. Izraeli , I. Mardor , E. O. Cohen , M. Duer , T. Y. Izraeli , I. Korover , J. Lichtenstadt , E. Piasetzky

Type Ia supernovae are an important tool for studying the expansion history of the universe. Advancing our yet incomplete understanding of the explosion scenario requires detailed and realistic numerical models in order to interpret and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Sauer , A. W. A. Pauldrach

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

Scattering line polarization and the Hanle effect are among the most important mechanisms for diagnostics of the solar and stellar atmospheres. The fact that real stellar atmospheres are horizontally inhomogeneous makes the spectral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-02 Jiří Štěpán

We present synthetic single-line and continuum linear-polarisation signatures due to electron scattering in axially-symmetric Type II supernovae (SNe) which we calculate using a Monte Carlo and a long-characteristic radiative-transfer code.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Luc Dessart , D. John Hillier

Monte Carlo methods represent the "de facto" standard for approximating complicated integrals involving multidimensional target distributions. In order to generate random realizations from the target distribution, Monte Carlo techniques use…

Computation · Statistics 2022-01-21 L. Martino , V. Elvira , D. Luengo , J. Corander

We present a novel way to synthesise the radio emission from extensive air showers. It is a hybrid approach which uses a single microscopic Monte-Carlo simulation to generate the radio emission from a shower with a different longitudinal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-20 Mitja Desmet , Stijn Buitink , David Butler , Tim Huege , Ralph Engel , Olaf Scholten

Polarization is an important tool to further the understanding of interstellar dust and the sources behind it. In this paper we describe our implementation of polarization that is due to scattering of light by spherical grains and electrons…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-10 Christian Peest , Peter Camps , Marko Stalevski , Maarten Baes , Ralf Siebenmorgen

The theory and numerical modelling of radiation processes and radiative transfer play a key role in astrophysics: they provide the link between the physical properties of an object and the radiation it emits. In the modern era of…

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Aims: We present POLARIS (POLArized RadIation Simulator), a newly developed three-dimensional Monte-Carlo radiative transfer code. POLARIS was designed to calculate dust temperature, polarization maps, and spectral energy distributions. It…

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Here we present the derivation, description and results of a Monte Carlo-based algorithm for simulating inelastic scattering of photo-electrons when passing through some scattering medium, such as a gas atmosphere or a solid material. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-06 Lukas Pielsticker , Robert Schlögl , Mark Greiner

In this Thesis, we describe the development of a three-dimensional radiative transfer code using Monte Carlo technique and its application to various astrophysical problems. This code is capable of simulating the radiation spectra coming…

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Simulating radiative transfer in the atmosphere with Monte Carlo ray tracing provides realistic surface irradiance in cloud-resolving models. However, Monte Carlo methods are computationally expensive because large sampling budgets are…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Ment Reeze , Menno A. Veerman , Chiel C. van Heerwaarden

The interpretation of the intensity and polarization of the spectral line radiation produced in the atmosphere of the Sun and of other stars requires solving a radiative transfer problem that can be very complex, especially when the main…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Jiri Stepan , Javier Trujillo Bueno

The polarization characteristics of atmospheric scattering are important and should not be ignored in radiative transfer simulations. In this study, a new vector radiative transfer model called the polarized adding method of discrete…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-04-17 Kun Wu , Feng Zhang , Wenwen Li , Fengzi Bao , Yi-ning Shi

In this contribution, we discuss the construction of Polynomial Chaos surrogates for Monte Carlo radiation transport applications via non-intrusive spectral projection. This contribution focuses on improvements with respect to the approach…

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