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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…

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Discrepancies play an important role in the study of uniformity properties of point sets. Their probability distributions are a help in the analysis of the efficiency of the Quasi Monte Carlo method of numerical integration, which uses…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. F. W. van Hameren

We investigate the feasibility of integrating quantum algorithms as subroutines of simulation-based optimisation problems with relevance to and potential applications in mathematical finance. To this end, we conduct a thorough analysis of…

In this paper, we derive closed-form estimators for the parameters of some probability distributions belonging to the exponential family. A bootstrap bias-reduced version of these proposed closed-form estimators are also derived. A Monte…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-24 Roberto Vila , Eduardo Nakano , Helton Saulo

Probabilistic prediction of sequences from images and other high-dimensional data is a key challenge, particularly in risk-sensitive applications. In these settings, it is often desirable to quantify the uncertainty associated with the…

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Reconstruction of one-dimensional kinematic distributions from calculations based on high-dimensional Monte-Carlo integration is a standard problem in high-energy physics. Traditionally, this is done by collecting randomly-generated events…

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We investigate Monte Carlo simulation strategies for determining the effective ("depletion") potential between a pair of hard spheres immersed in a dense sea of much smaller hard spheres. Two routes to the depletion potential are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-16 D. J. Ashton , V. Sanchez-Gil , N. B. Wilding

Reference [1] introduces a method for computing numerically four-dimensional multi-loop integrals without performing an explicit analytic contour deformation around threshold singularities. In this paper, we extend such a technique to…

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Continued demand for accurate and computationally efficient transport methods to solve optically thick, fixed-source transport problems has inspired research on variance-reduction (VR) techniques for Monte Carlo (MC). Methods that use…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-02-18 S. C. Wilson , R. N. Slaybaugh

The results of analytical approximations and extensive calculations based on a path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) scheme are presented. A new (direct) PIMC method allows for a correct determination of thermodynamic properties such as energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Filinov , M. Bonitz , D. Kremp , W. -D. Kraeft , V. Fortov

An inhomogeneous backflow transformation for many-particle wave functions is presented and applied to electrons in atoms, molecules, and solids. We report variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo VMC and DMC energies for various…

Computational Physics · Physics 2008-01-04 P. Lopez-Rios , A. Ma , N. D. Drummond , M. D. Towler , R. J. Needs

We formulate and test a hybrid fluid-Monte Carlo scheme for the treatment of elastic collisions in gases and plasmas. While our primary focus and demonstrations of applicability are for moderately collisional plasmas, as described by the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 L. F. Ricketson , M. S. Rosin , R. E. Caflisch , Andris M. Dimits

In the regime where traditional approaches to electronic structure cannot afford to achieve accurate energy differences via exhaustive wave function flexibility, rigorous approaches to balancing different states' accuracies become…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Paul J. Robinson , Sergio D. Pineda Flores , Eric Neuscamman

This work introduces a novel multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) metamodeling approach for variance function estimation. Although devising an efficient experimental design for simulation metamodeling can be elusive, the MLMC-based approach…

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Dimensional regularization of Euclidean momentum space integrals is a highly successful technique in renormalization of quantum field theories. While it yields a straightforward algorithmic method, with which to evaluate diagrams beyond…

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Space filling designs are central to studying complex systems in various areas of science. They are used for obtaining an overall understanding of the behaviour of the response over the input space, model construction and uncertainty…

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This article aims to summarize recent and ongoing efforts to simulate continuous-variable quantum systems using flow-based variational quantum Monte Carlo techniques, focusing for pedagogical purposes on the example of bosons in the field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 James Stokes , Brian Chen , Shravan Veerapaneni

We present a formalism that allows for the direct manipulation and optimization of subspaces, circumventing the need to optimize individual states when using subspace methods. Using the determinant state mapping, we can naturally extend…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Adrien Kahn , Luca Gravina , Filippo Vicentini

In this paper, we present a mixed-type integral-sum representation of the cylinder functions $\mathscr{C}_\mu(z)$, which holds for unrestricted complex values of the order $\mu$ and for any complex value of the variable $z$. Particular…

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We introduce Monte Carlo methods to compute the solution of elliptic equations with pure Neumann boundary conditions. We first prove that the solution obtained by the stochastic representation has a zero mean value with respect to the…

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