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A fundamental problem in experiments with open quantum systems is to ensure steady-state convergence within a given operational time window. Here, we devise a general state preparation recipe to control relaxation timescales and achieve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Nicolò Beato , Gianluca Teza

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are widely used to study large-scale molecular systems. HPC systems are ideal platforms to run these studies, however, reaching the necessary simulation timescale to detect rare processes is challenging,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Tu Mai Anh Do , Loïc Pottier , Rafael Ferreira da Silva , Frédéric Suter , Silvina Caíno-Lores , Michela Taufer , Ewa Deelman

We investigate the lattice spacing dependence of the equilibration time for a recently proposed multiscale thermalization algorithm for Markov chain Monte Carlo simulations. The algorithm uses a renormalization-group matched coarse lattice…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-04-18 William Detmold , Michael G. Endres

Solvent-free coarse grained models represent one of the most promising approaches for molecular simulations of mesoscopically large membranes. In these models, the size of the simulated membrane is limited by the slow relaxation time of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Oded Farago

Simulating physical problems involving multi-time scale coupling is challenging due to the need of solving these multi-time scale processes simultaneously. In response to this challenge, this paper proposed an explicit multi-time step…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Xiaojing Tang , Dong Wu , Zhengtong Wang , Oskar Haidn , Xiangyu Hu

The reptation Monte Carlo algorithm is a simple, physically motivated and efficient method for equilibrating semi-dilute solutions of linear polymers. Here we propose two simple generalizations for the analogue {\it Amoeba} algorithm for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-30 Pieter H. W. van der Hoek , Angelo Rosa , Ralf Everaers

Computational determination of the equilibrium state of heterogeneous phospholipid mem-branes is a significant challenge. We wish to explore the rich phase diagram of these multi-component systems. However, the diffusion and mixing times in…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Yevhen K. Cherniavskyi , Arman Fathizadeh , Ron Elber , D. Peter Tieleman

We describe collective-move Monte Carlo algorithms designed to approximate the overdamped dynamics of self-assembling nanoscale components equipped with strong, short-ranged and anisotropic interactions. Conventional Monte Carlo simulations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-16 Stephen Whitelam

Particle swarm optimisation is a metaheuristic algorithm which finds reasonable solutions in a wide range of applied problems if suitable parameters are used. We study the properties of the algorithm in the framework of random dynamical…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-20 J. Michael Herrmann , Adam Erskine , Thomas Joyce

This paper presents a simple, effective, and cost-efficient strategy to improve LLM performance by scaling test-time compute. Our strategy builds upon the repeated-sampling-then-voting framework, with a novel twist: incorporating multiple…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jianhao Chen , Zishuo Xun , Bocheng Zhou , Han Qi , Hangfan Zhang , Qiaosheng Zhang , Yang Chen , Wei Hu , Yuzhong Qu , Wanli Ouyang , Shuyue Hu

Emergent properties in distributed systems arise due to timing unpredictability; asynchronous state evolution within each sub-system may lead the macro-system to faulty meta-states. Empirical validation of correctness is often prohibitively…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Tinapat Limsila , Mehul Sharma , Paulo Garcia

Coordinating micro-robotic swarms in physiologically realistic, time-dependent fluid environments remains an unsolved challenge for biomedical and environmental applications. We present a hybrid Computational Fluid Dynamics -…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Josef Berman , Oren Gal

We analyze and compare the computational complexity of different simulation strategies for Monte Carlo in the setting of classically scaled population processes. This allows a range of widely used competing strategies to be judged…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-05 David F. Anderson , Desmond J. Higham , Yu Sun

Human-swarm interaction is facilitated by a low-dimensional encoding of the swarm formation, independent of the (possibly large) number of robots. We propose using image moments to encode two-dimensional formations of robots. Each robot…

This paper investigates efficient techniques to collect and concentrate an under-actuated particle swarm despite obstacles. Concentrating a swarm of particles is of critical importance in health-care for targeted drug delivery, where…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-01-03 Arun V. Mahadev , Dominik Krupke , Jan-Marc Reinhardt , Sándor P. Fekete , Aaron T. Becker

We present a novel approach to investigate the long-time stochastic dynamics of multi-dimensional classical systems, in contact with a heat-bath. When the potential energy landscape is rugged, the kinetics displays a decoupling of short and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 O. Corradini , P. Faccioli , H. Orland

This paper presents a powerful swarm intelligence meta-heuristic optimization algorithm called Dynamic Cat Swarm Optimization. The formulation is through modifying the existing Cat Swarm Optimization. The original Cat Swarm Optimization…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Aram Ahmed , Tarik A. Rashid , Soran Saeed

Heterogeneous multiscale methods (HMM) combine molecular accuracy of particle-based simulations with the computational efficiency of continuum descriptions to model flow in soft matter liquids. In these schemes, molecular simulations…

Metastable structures in macromolecular and colloidal systems are non-equilibrium states that often have long lifetimes and cause difficulties in simulating equilibrium. In order to escape from the long-lived metastable states, we propose a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-06-09 Yuki Norizoe , Toshihiro Kawakatsu

In Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulations, the thermal equilibria quantities are estimated by ensemble average over a sample set containing a large number of correlated samples. These samples are selected in accordance with the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-01-08 J. Li , P. Vignal , S. Sun , V. M. Calo