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We show that when a molecular junction is under an external bias, its properties can not be uniquely determined by the total electron density in the same manner as the density functional theory (DFT) for ground state (GS) properties. In…

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We develop new dynamically orthogonal tensor methods to approximate multivariate functions and the solution of high-dimensional time-dependent nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). The key idea relies on a hierarchical…

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We introduce a new procedure to construct weight factors, which flatten the probability density of the overlap with respect to some pre-defined reference configuration. This allows one to overcome free energy barriers in the overlap…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. A. Berg , H. Noguchi , Y. Okamoto

This paper considers the problem of understanding the behavior of a general class of accelerated gradient methods on smooth nonconvex functions. Motivated by some recent works that have proposed effective algorithms, based on Polyak's heavy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Rishabh Dixit , Mert Gurbuzbalaban , Waheed U. Bajwa

The generator coordinate method begins with the variational construction of a set of non-orthogonal mean-field states that span a subspace of the full many-body Hilbert space. These states are then often projected onto states with good…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 A. M Romero , J. M. Yao , B. Bally , T. R. Rodríguez , J. Engel

Many topologically nontrivial states of matter possess gapless degrees of freedom on the boundary, and when these boundary states delocalize into the bulk, a phase transition occurs and the system becomes topologically trivial. We show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-02 Timothy H. Hsieh , Liang Fu , Xiao-Liang Qi

Efficient descriptions of open quantum systems can be obtained by performing an adiabatic elimination of the fast degrees of freedom and formulating effective operators for the slow degrees of freedom in reduced dimensions. Here, we perform…

We consider the Navier-Stokes equations in a channel with a narrowing of varying height. The model is discretized with high-order spectral element ansatz functions, resulting in 6372 degrees of freedom. The steady-state snapshot solutions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-29 Martin W. Hess , Annalisa Quaini , Gianluigi Rozza

The Energy Mover's Distance (EMD) has seen use in collider physics as a metric between events and as a geometric method of defining infrared and collinear safe observables. Recently, the Spectral Energy Mover's Distance (SEMD) has been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-14 Rikab Gambhir , Andrew J. Larkoski , Jesse Thaler

Free energy profile (FE Profile) is an essential quantity for the estimation of reaction rate and the validation of reaction mechanism. For chemical reactions in condensed phase or enzymatic reactions, the computation of FE profile at ab…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-15 Pengfei Li , Xiangyu Jia , Xiaoliang Pan , Yihan Shao , Ye Mei

We consider multi-value expansion planning (MEP), a general bilevel optimization model in which a planner optimizes arbitrary functions of the dispatch outcome in the presence of a partially controllable, competitive electricity market. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Anthony Degleris , Abbas El Gamal , Ram Rajagopal

In the present work we explore the application of a few root-finding methods to a series of prototypical examples. The methods we consider include: (a) the so-called continuous-time Nesterov (CTN) flow method; (b) a variant thereof referred…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-02-03 Priya Subramanian , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

We study the $h$- and $p$-versions of non-conforming harmonic virtual element methods (VEM) for the approximation of the Dirichlet-Laplace problem on a 2D polygonal domain, providing quasi-optimal error bounds. Harmonic VEM do not make use…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-30 Lorenzo Mascotto , Ilaria Perugia , Alexander Pichler

A method is presented for generating a good initial guess of a transition path between given initial and final states of a system without evaluation of the energy. An objective function surface is constructed using an interpolation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-06-19 Søren Smidstrup , Andreas Pedersen , Kurt Stokbro , Hannes Jónsson

Using a counting scheme which treats pseudoscalar and vector mesons on equal footing, the decays of the narrow light vector mesons omega and phi into a dilepton and a pseudoscalar pi-meson or eta-meson, respectively, are calculated.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Carla Terschlüsen , Stefan Leupold

In this contribution we present how to obtain explicit state space models in port-Hamiltonian form when a mixed finite element method is applied to a linear mechanical system with non-uniform boundary conditions. The key is to express the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-01 Tobias Thoma , Paul Kotyczka

This work proposes a hybrid modeling framework based on recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and the finite element (FE) method to approximate model discrepancies in time dependent, multi-fidelity problems, and use the trained hybrid models to…

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We analyze optimal complexity of adaptive finite element methods (AFEMs) for general second-order linear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) in the Lax-Milgram setting. To this end, we formulate an adaptive algorithm which steers…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Thomas Führer , Paula Hilbert , Ani Miraçi , Dirk Praetorius

We address the numerical solution via Galerkin type methods of the Monge-Amp\`ere equation with transport boundary conditions arising in optimal mass transport, geometric optics and computational mesh or grid movement techniques. This fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-27 Ellya Kawecki , Omar Lakkis , Tristan Pryer

Pressure Poisson equation (PPE) reformulations of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations (NSE) replace the incompressibility constraint by a Poisson equation for the pressure and a suitable choice of boundary conditions. This yields a…

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