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We analyze the large frequency behavior of the spectral densities that govern the generalized Langevin diffusion process for a heavy quark in the context of the gauge/gravity duality. The bare Langevin correlators obtained from the trailing…

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We study the effect of temporal correlation in a Langevin equation describing non-adiabatic dynamics at metal surfaces. For a harmonic oscillator the Langevin equation preserves the quantum dynamics exactly and it is demonstrated that…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-07 Thomas Olsen , Jakob Schiøtz

Langevin equations are used to model many processes of physical interest, including low-energy nuclear collisions. In this paper we develop a general method for computing probabilities of very rare events (e.g. small fusion cross-sections)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 O. Mazonka , C. Jarzynski , J. Blocki

We consider the problem of approximating the Langevin dynamics of inertial particles being transported by a background flow. In particular, we study an acceleration corrected advection-diffusion approximation to the Langevin dynamics, a…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Yoichiro Mori , Chanoknun Sintavanuruk , Truong-Son P. Van

We present a direct numerical simulation method for investigating the dynamics of dispersed particles in a compressible solvent fluid. The validity of the simulation is examined by calculating the velocity relaxation of an impulsively…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-04 Rei Tatsumi , Ryoichi Yamamoto

The blossoming of interest in colloids and nano-particles has given renewed impulse to the study of hard-body systems. In particular, hard spheres have become a real test system for theories and experiments. It is therefore necessary to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-08-28 Antonio Scala

We discuss the design of state-of-the-art numerical methods for molecular dynamics, focusing on the demands of soft matter simulation, where the purposes include sampling and dynamics calculations both in and out of equilibrium. We discuss…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-14 Xiaocheng Shang , Martin Kröger , Benedict Leimkuhler

Diffusion models are often introduced from multiple perspectives, such as VAEs, score matching, or flow matching, accompanied by dense and technically demanding mathematics that can be difficult for beginners to grasp. One classic question…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Candi Zheng , Yuan Lan

Atomic scale simulations are a key element of modern science in that they allow to understand, and even predict, complex physical or chemical phenomena on the basis of the fundamental laws of nature. Among the different existing atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-20 Alexandre Boulle , Alain Chartier , Aurélien Debelle , Xin Jin , Jean-Paul Crocombette

A general method is proposed which allows one to estimate drift and diffusion coefficients of a stochastic process governed by a Langevin equation. It extends a previously devised approach [R. Friedrich et al., Physics Letters A 271, 217…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Kleinhans , R. Friedrich , A. Nawroth , J. Peinke

Interacting argon atoms are simulated with a recently developed quantum Langevin transport treatment that takes approximate account of the quantum fluctuations inherent in microscopic many-body descriptions based on wave packets. The mass…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Ohnishi , J. Randrup

We simulate the femtosecond laser induced desorption dynamics of a diatomic molecule from a metal surface by including the effect of the electron and phonon excitations created by the laser pulse. Following previous models, the laser…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-14 Ivor Lončarić , M. Alducin , P. Saalfrank , J. I. Juaristi

A variety of enhanced statistical and numerical methods are now routinely used to extract comprehensible and relevant thermodynamic information from the vast amount of complex, high-dimensional data obtained from intensive molecular…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-10-14 Francois Sicard , Vladimir Koskin , Alessia Annibale , Edina Rosta

In this work we study the diffusion annealed Langevin dynamics, a score-based diffusion process recently introduced in the theory of generative models and which is an alternative to the classical overdamped Langevin diffusion. Our goal is…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Patrick Cattiaux , Paula Cordero-Encinar , Arnaud Guillin

Fusion-fission dynamics is investigated with a special emphasis on fusion reactions at low energy for which shell effects and pairing correlations can play a crucial role leading in particular to multi-modal fission. To follow the dynamical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Ch. Schmitt , J. Bartel , K. Pomorski , A. Surowiec

This work presents a detailed mathematical model combined with an innovative efficient numerical model to predict heat, air and moisture transfer through porous building materials. The model considers the transient effects of air transport…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-02-20 Julien Berger , Denys Dutykh , Nathan Mendes , Bolatbek Rysbaiuly

We perform 2D, fully compressible, time-implicit simulations of convection in a solar-like model with the MUSIC code. Our main motivation is to explore the impact of a common tactic adopted in numerical simulations of convection that use…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 I. Baraffe , J. Pratt , D. G. Vlaykov , T. Guillet , T. Goffrey , A. Le Saux , T. Constantino

Fractional Brownian motion and the fractional Langevin equation are models of anomalous diffusion processes characterized by long-range power-law correlations in time. We employ large-scale computer simulations to study these models in two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-22 Thomas Vojta , Alex Warhover

We present a new method for isothermal rigid body simulations using the quaternion representation and Langevin dynamics. It can be combined with the traditional Langevin or gradient (Brownian) dynamics for the translational degrees of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 Ruslan L. Davidchack , Richard Handel , M. V. Tretyakov

Understanding the on-chip motion of magnetic particles in a microfluidic environment is key to realizing magnetic particle-based Lab-on-a-chip systems for medical diagnostics. In this work, a simulation model is established to quantify the…