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The optimization of atomic structures plays a pivotal role in understanding and designing materials with desired properties. However, conventional computational methods often struggle with the formidable task of navigating the vast…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-19 Peder Lyngby , Casper Larsen , Karsten Wedel Jacobsen

The Gaussian expansion method (GEM) is extensively applied to the calculations in the random-phase approximation (RPA). We adopt the mass-independent basis-set that has been tested in the mean-field calculations. By comparing the RPA…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 H. Nakada , K. Mizuyama , M. Yamagami , M. Matsuo

Many problems in physics, material sciences, chemistry and biology can be abstractly formulated as a system that navigates over a complex energy landscape of high or infinite dimensions. Well-known examples include phase transitions of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Weinan E , Weiqing Ren , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

We present a novel energy-based numerical analysis of semilinear diffusion-reaction boundary value problems. Based on a suitable variational setting, the proposed computational scheme can be seen as an energy minimisation approach. More…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Mario Amrein , Pascal Heid , Thomas P. Wihler

First principles calculations based on density functional theory are having an incerasing impact on our understanding of molecule-surface interactions. For example, calculations of the multi-dimensional potential energy surface have…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Gulseren , D. M. Bird , S. E. Humphreys

Grover's algorithm for quantum search can also be applied to classical energy transfer. The procedure takes a system in which the total energy is equally distributed among $N$ subsystems and transfers most of the it to one marked subsystem.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-25 Juan Carlos Garcia-Escartin Pedro Chamorro-Posada

Methods for calculating lower bounds to the exact energy using the variance of the upper bound energy are discussed and explored. All the matrix elements of the Hamiltonian squared are collected and considered, and those for which no known…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-09 Robbie Thomson Ireland

This contribution is devoted to cover some technical aspects related to the use of the recently proposed energy probability distribution zeros in the study of phase transitions. This method is based on the partial knowledge of the partition…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-12-13 L A S Mól , R G M Rodrigues , R A Stancioli , J C S Rocha , B V Costa

We report a method for the evaluation of the one-loop self-energy, to all orders in the external binding field, using a Gaussian basis set expansion. This choice of basis is motivated by its widespread use in molecular calculations. For a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Dávid Ferenc , Maen Salman , Trond Saue

Machine learning of multi-dimensional potential energy surfaces, from purely ab initio datasets, has seen substantial progress in the past years. Gaussian processes, a popular regression method, have been very successful at producing…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Fabio E. A. Albertani , Alex J. W. Thom

Within the past two decades, Gaussian process regression has been increasingly used for modeling dynamical systems due to some beneficial properties such as the bias variance trade-off and the strong connection to Bayesian mathematics. As…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-11 Thomas Beckers

For interacting electrons in solids, Heisenberg's equation is used to calculate the distribution in energy of transitions induced by adding an electron to an atomic-like spin orbital. This is the projected density of transitions which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-15 Roger Haydock

The minimum energy path (MEP) describes the mechanism of reaction, and the energy barrier along the path can be used to calculate the reaction rate in thermal systems. The nudged elastic band (NEB) method is one of the most commonly used…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Xuanyu Liu , Huajie Chen , Christoph Ortner

These days we live in a world with a permanent electromagnetic field. This raises many questions about our health and the deployment of new equipment. The problem is that these fields remain difficult to visualize easily, which only some…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-04 Angesom Ataklity Tesfay , Laurent Clavier

This paper introduces a structural equation formulation that gives rise to a new family of quasi-periodic Gaussian processes, useful to process a broad class of natural and physiological signals. The proposed formulation simplifies…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-04 Unnati Nigam , Radhendushka Srivastava , Faezeh Marzbanrad , Michael Burke

The critical step in a molecular process is often a rare-event and has to be simulated by an enhanced sampling protocol. Recovering accurate dynamical estimates from such biased simulation is challenging. Girsanov reweighting is a method to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-28 Stefanie Kieninger , Simon Ghysbrecht , Bettina G. Keller

A newly developed method for systematically improving the convergence of path integrals for transition amplitudes, introduced in Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 (2005) 180403, Phys. Rev. B 72 (2005) 064302, Phys. Lett. A 344 (2005) 84, and expectation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-08-08 Danica Stojiljkovic , Aleksandar Bogojevic , Antun Balaz

We present a method to accurately predict the Helmholtz harmonic free energies of molecular crystals in high-throughput settings. This is achieved by devising a computationally efficient framework that employs a Gaussian Process Regression…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-17 Marcin Krynski , Mariana Rossi

Gaussian process regression is a frequently used statistical method for flexible yet fully probabilistic non-linear regression modeling. A common obstacle is its computational complexity which scales poorly with the number of observations.…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-10 Adam Gorm Hoffmann , Claus Thorn Ekstrøm , Andreas Kryger Jensen

Optimization of problems with high computational power demands is a challenging task. A probabilistic approach to such optimization called Bayesian optimization lowers performance demands by solving mathematically simpler model of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Jakub Klus , Pavel Grunt , Martin Dobrovolný