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Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are some of the most accurate methods for simulating correlated electronic systems. We investigate the compatibility, strengths and weaknesses of two such methods, namely, diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Fionn D. Malone , Anouar Benali , Miguel A. Morales , Michel Caffarel , P. R. C. Kent , Luke Shulenburger

Monte Carlo simulations have been used to study the phase diagrams for square Ising-lattice gas models with two-body and three-body interactions for values of interaction parameters in a range that has not been previously considered. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Junqi Yin , D. P. Landau

The interfacial free energy between a crystal and a fluid, {\gamma} cf, is a highly relevant parameter in phenomena such as wetting or crystal nucleation and growth. Due to the difficulty of measuring {\gamma} cf experimentally, computer…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-23 J. R. Espinosa , C. Vega , E. Sanz

In this work we propose a hierarchy of Monte Carlo methods for sampling equilibrium properties of stochastic lattice systems with competing short and long range interactions. Each Monte Carlo step is composed by two or more sub - steps…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-30 Evangelia Kalligiannaki , Markos A. Katsoulakis , Petr Plechac , Dionisios G Vlachos

Different computational techniques in combination with molecular dynamics computer simulation are used to to determine the wall-liquid and the wall-crystal interfacial free energies of a modified Lennard-Jones (LJ) system in contact with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Ronald Benjamin , Jürgen Horbach

Quantum Monte Carlo methods have proven to be valuable in the study of strongly correlated quantum systems, particularly nuclear physics and cold atomic gases. Historically, such ab initio simulations have been used to study properties of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-10-26 J. Carlson , Stefano Gandolfi , Alexandros Gezerlis

We introduce a new micro-macro Markov chain Monte Carlo method (mM-MCMC) to sample invariant distributions of molecular dynamics systems that exhibit a time-scale separation between the microscopic (fast) dynamics, and the macroscopic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-24 Hannes Vandecasteele , Giovanni Samaey

Monte Carlo (MC) simulations are powerful computational tools for investigating thermodynamic behavior and validating analytical approaches in complex physical systems. Here we present ETHER (Efficient Tool for THermodynamics Exploration…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-10 Mukesh Kumar Sharma

Reverse Monte Carlo (RMC) is an algorithm that incorporates stochastic modification of the action as part of the process that updates the fields in a Monte Carlo simulation. Such update moves have the potential of lowering or eliminating…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-22 Arjun Singh Gambhir , Kostas Orginos

We found that Bidirectional LSTM and Transformer can classify different phases of condensed matter models and determine the phase transition points by learning features in the Monte Carlo raw data before equilibrium. Our method can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-15 Jiewei Ding , Ho-Kin Tang , Wing Chi Yu

We consider the problem of estimating the probability of a large loss from a financial portfolio, where the future loss is expressed as a conditional expectation. Since the conditional expectation is intractable in most cases, one may…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Zhenghang Xu , Zhijian He , Xiaoqun Wang

We introduce a Monte-Carlo algorithm for the simulation of charged particles moving in the continuum. Electrostatic interactions are not instantaneous as in conventional approaches, but are mediated by a constrained, diffusing electric…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Joerg Rottler , A. C. Maggs

KMCLib is a general framework for lattice kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulations. The program can handle simulations of the diffusion and reaction of millions of particles in one, two, or three dimensions, and is designed to be easily…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-05-07 Mikael Leetmaa , Natalia V. Skorodumova

We present a Markov chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC) method to make a geometric graph which satisfies the following two conditions: (i) The degree of each vertex is fixed to a positive integer $k$. (ii) The probability that two vertices located on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-28 Munetaka Sasaki

We introduce a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm that dramatically accelerates the simulation of quantum many-body systems, a grand challenge in computational science. State-of-the-art methods for these problems are severely limited…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-17 Deqian Kong , Shi Feng , Jianwen Xie , Ying Nian Wu

In this paper, I investigate more closely the recently proposed Free Energy Monte Carlo algorithm that is devised in particular for calculations where conventional Monte Carlo simulations struggle with ergodicity problems. The simplest…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. J. Thill

Monte Carlo simulations using entropic sampling to estimate the number of configurations of a given energy are a valuable alternative to traditional methods. We introduce {\it tomographic} entropic sampling, a scheme which uses multiple…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 Ronald Dickman , A. G. Cunha-Netto

Multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) reduces the total computational cost of financial option pricing by combining SDE approximations with multiple resolutions. This paper explores a further avenue for reducing cost and improving power efficiency…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-02-12 Irina-Beatrice Haas , Michael B. Giles

We introduce and implement a Monte Carlo scheme to study the equilibrium statistics of polymers in the globular phase. It is based on a model of "interacting elastic lattice polymers" and allows a sufficiently good sampling of long and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-25 M. Baiesi , E. Orlandini

A methodology for calculating the contribution of charged defects to the configurational free energy of an ionic crystal is introduced. The temperature-independent Wang-Landau Monte Carlo technique is applied to a simple model of a solid…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-16 Robert M. Horton , Andrew J. Haslam , Amparo Galindo , George Jackson , Michael W. Finnis