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Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulation codes have wide applicability to first-principles modeling of multidimensional nonlinear plasma phenomena, including wake-field accelerators. This review addresses both finite difference and pseudo-spectral…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-08-07 Brendan B. Godfrey

In many problems involving particle accelerators and relativistic plasmas, the accurate modeling of relativistic particle motion is essential for accurate physical predictions. Here, we extend a charge-conserving finite element time-domain…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 D. Y. Na , H. Moon , Y. A. Omelchenko , F. L. Teixeira

A computational procedure is developed for determining the conversion probability for reaction-diffusion systems in which a first-order catalytic reaction is performed over active particles. We apply this general method to systems on metric…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-03-19 Renato Feres , Matthew Wallace , Ari Stern , Gregory Yablonsky

Langevin Monte Carlo (LMC) algorithms are popular Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods to sample a target probability distribution, which arises in many applications in machine learning. Inspired by regime-switching stochastic…

Computation · Statistics 2025-09-03 Xiaoyu Wang , Yingli Wang , Lingjiong Zhu

We develop Monte Carlo methods for sampling random states and corresponding bit strings in qubit systems. To this end, we derive exact probability density functions that yield the Porter-Thomas distribution in the limit of large systems. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Andreas Raab

The study of accurate methods to estimate the distribution of stellar rotational velocities is important for understanding many aspects of stellar evolution. From such observations we obtain the projected rotational speed v sin(i) in order…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Rafael Orellana , Pedro Escarate , Michel Cure , Alejandra Christen , Rodrigo Carvajal , Juan Carlos Agüero

We present two Monte Carlo sampling algorithms for probabilistic inference that guarantee polynomial-time convergence for a larger class of network than current sampling algorithms provide. These new methods are variants of the known…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-18 Malcolm Pradhan , Paul Dagum

The montecarlo method, which is quite commonly used to solve maximum entropy problems in statistical physics, can actually be used to solve inverse problems in a much wider context. The probability distribution which maximizes entropy can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jan Naudts

Aims. Numerical test-particle simulations are a reliable and frequently used tool to test analytical transport theories and to predict mean-free paths. The comparison between solutions of the diffusion equation and the particle flux is used…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 R. C. Tautz , J. Bolte , A. Shalchi

We present a Monte Carlo algorithm for selectively sampling radial distribution functions and effective interaction potentials in asymmetric liquid mixtures. We demonstrate its efficiency for hard-sphere mixtures, and for model systems with…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 J. G. Malherbe , Werner Krauth

In three-dimensional electromagnetic configurations that result from unstable resistive tearing modes particles can efficiently be accelerated to relativistic energies. To prove this resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations are used as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Christoph Nodes , Guido T. Birk , Harald Lesch , R. Schopper

Light propagation in turbid media is driven by the equation of radiative transfer. We give a formal probabilistic representation of its solution in the framework of biological tissues and we implement algorithms based on Monte Carlo methods…

Computation · Statistics 2014-10-16 Laura Vinckenbosch , Céline Lacaux , Samy Tindel , Magalie Thomassin , Tiphaine Obara

For random variables produced through the inverse transform method, approximate random variables are introduced, which are produced by approximations to a distribution's inverse cumulative distribution function. These approximations are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Oliver Sheridan-Methven , Michael Giles

In particle-in-cell simulations, excessive or even unfeasible computational demands can be caused by the growth of the number of particles in the course of prolific ionization or cascaded pair production due to the effects of quantum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-25 A. Muraviev , A. Bashinov , E. Efimenko , V. Volokitin , I. Meyerov , A. Gonoskov

A recent reformulation [1] of the problem of Coulomb gases in the presence of a dynamical dielectric medium showed that finite temperature simulations of such systems can be accomplished on the basis of completely local Hamiltonians on a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Duncan , R. D. Sedgewick

A resampling scheme provides a way to switch low-weight particles for sequential Monte Carlo with higher-weight particles representing the objective distribution. The less the variance of the weight distribution is, the more concentrated…

Computation · Statistics 2023-09-19 Xiongming Dai , Gerald Baumgartner

Thermodynamics of dissipative quantum systems with double-well potentials is studied by the path-integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) method without truncation to the two-state model. For efficient simulation at low temperatures, we develop a new…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Takeshi Matsuo , Yuhei Natsume , Takeo Kato

Particle-based methods include a variety of techniques, such as Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC), for approximating a probabilistic target distribution with a set of weighted particles. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-03 Hadi Mohasel Afshar , Gilad Francis , Sally Cripps

The Monte Carlo Hamiltonian method developed recently allows to investigate ground state and low-lying excited states of a quantum system, using Monte Carlo algorithm with importance sampling. However, conventional MC algorithm has some…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-01-17 Xiang-Qian Luo , Xiao-Ni Cheng , Helmut Kroger

Two relativistic distributions which generalizes the Maxwell Boltzman (MB) distribution are analyzed: the relativistic MB and the Maxwell-J{\"u}ttner (MJ) distribution. For the two distributions we derived in terms of special functions the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-11 Lorenzo Zaninetti