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Monte Carlo (MC) method has been recognized the most accurate dose calculation method for radiotherapy. However, its extremely long computation time impedes clinical applications. Recently, a lot of efforts have been made to realize fast MC…

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We present a new Monte Carlo method for obtaining solutions of the Boltzmann equation for describing phonon transport in micro and nanoscale devices. The proposed method can resolve arbitrarily small signals (e.g. temperature differences)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Jean-Philippe Peraud , Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou

Variational Monte Carlo (VMC) is an approach for computing ground-state wavefunctions that has recently become more powerful due to the introduction of neural network-based wavefunction parametrizations. However, efficiently training neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-03 Robert J. Webber , Michael Lindsey

Learned field transformations may help address ubiquitous critical slowing down and signal-to-noise problems in lattice field theory. In the context of an annealed sequence of distributions, field transformations are defined by integrating…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-03-03 Michael S. Albergo , Gurtej Kanwar

This work presents an updated and extended guide on methods of a proper acceleration of the Monte Carlo integration of stochastic differential equations with the commonly available NVIDIA Graphics Processing Units using the CUDA programming…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-04-23 J. Spiechowicz , M. Kostur , L. Machura

An essential component in proton radiotherapy is the algorithm to calculate the radiation dose to be delivered to the patient. The most common dose algorithms are fast but they are approximate analytical approaches. However their level of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Pablo P Yepes , Dragan Mirkovic , Phillip J Taddei

A novel phase-space source implementation has been designed for GPU-based Monte Carlo dose calculation engines. Due to the parallelized nature of GPU hardware, it is essential to simultaneously transport particles of the same type and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2013-06-21 Reid Townson , Xun Jia , Zhen Tian , Yan Jiang Graves , Sergei Zavgorodni , Steve B Jiang

We derive, by introducing restrictions to the lesser self energy, a Monte Carlo scheme that solves the NEGF equations for electron transport. In doing so we formally prove that the Monte Carlo estimator has an expectation value equal to the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-28 Lars Musland , Espen Flage-Larsen , Joakim Bergli

We created an efficient algorithm suitable for graphics processing units (GPUs) to perform Monte Carlo simulations of a subset of reaction-diffusion models. The algorithm uses techniques that are specific to GPU programming, and combines…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-03-06 R. D. Schram

The answers to data assimilation questions can be expressed as path integrals over all possible state and parameter histories. We show how these path integrals can be evaluated numerically using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo method designed to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 John C. Quinn , Henry D. I. Abarbanel

We derive a new Sequential-Monte-Carlo-based algorithm to estimate the capacity of two-dimensional channel models. The focus is on computing the noiseless capacity of the 2-D one-infinity run-length limited constrained channel, but the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Christian A. Naesseth , Fredrik Lindsten , Thomas B. Schön

Monte Carlo simulations are widely employed to measure the physical properties of glass-forming liquids in thermal equilibrium. Combined with local Monte Carlo moves, the Metropolis algorithm can also be used to simulate the relaxation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-23 Ludovic Berthier , Federico Ghimenti Frédéric van Wijland

The Monte Carlo method is a powerful technique for computing thermodynamic magnetic states of otherwise unsolvable spin Hamiltonians, but the method becomes computationally prohibitive with increasing number of spins and the simulation of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 Michalis Charilaou

Current trends in parallel processors call for the design of efficient massively parallel algorithms for scientific computing. Parallel algorithms for Monte Carlo simulations of thermodynamic ensembles of particles have received little…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-08-26 Joshua A. Anderson , Eric Jankowski , Thomas L. Grubb , Michael Engel , Sharon C. Glotzer

We present a scheme for the parallelization of quantum Monte Carlo on graphical processing units, focusing on bosonic systems and variational Monte Carlo. We use asynchronous execution schemes with shared memory persistence, and obtain an…

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Monte Carlo simulation provides a powerful tool for understanding and exploring thermodynamic phase equilibria in many-particle interacting systems. Among the most physically intuitive simulation methods is Gibbs ensemble Monte Carlo…

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In predictive modeling with simulation or machine learning, it is critical to accurately assess the quality of estimated values through output analysis. In recent decades output analysis has become enriched with methods that quantify the…

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Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are now powerful and flexible systems adapted and used for other purposes than graphics calculations (General Purpose computation on GPU -- GPGPU). We present here a prototype to be integrated into…

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The recent trend of using Graphics Processing Units (GPU's) for high performance computations is driven by the high ratio of price performance for these units, complemented by their cost effectiveness. At first glance, computational fluid…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Kiril S. Shterev

Monte Carlo simulations are a powerful tool to investigate the thermodynamic properties of atomic systems. In practice however, sampling of the complete configuration space is often hindered by high energy barriers between different regions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-04 Jonas A. Finkler , Stefan Goedecker