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Monte Carlo methods are widely used in particle physics to integrate and sample probability distributions (differential cross sections or decay rates) on multi-dimensional phase spaces. We present a Neural Network (NN) algorithm optimized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-21 Matthew D. Klimek , Maxim Perelstein

We present a method which extends Monte Carlo studies to situations that require a large dynamic range in particle number. The underlying idea is that, in order to calculate the collisional evolution of a system, some particle interactions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. W. Ormel , M. Spaans

We develop an all-electron path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) method with free-particle nodes for warm dense matter and apply it to water and carbon plasmas. We thereby extend PIMC studies beyond hydrogen and helium to elements with core…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-03-22 Kevin Driver , Burkhard Militzer

We report microcanonical Monte Carlo simulations of melting and superheating of a generic, Lennard-Jones system starting from the crystalline phase. The isochoric curve, the melting temperature $T_m$ and the critical superheating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-20 Sergio Davis , Gonzalo Gutiérrez

We analyze a new Monte Carlo method which uses transition matrix in the space of energy. This method gives an efficient reweighting technique. The associated artificial dynamics is a constrained random walk in energy, producing the result…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jian-Sheng Wang

A quantum interatomic scattering is implemented in the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method applied to transport phenomena in rarefied gases. In contrast to the traditional DSMC method based on the classical scattering, the proposed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Felix Sharipov

In order to extend the recently proposed Monte Carlo Hamiltonian to many-body systems, we suggest to concept of a stochastic basis. We apply it to the chain of $N_s=9$ coupled anharmonic oscillators. We compute the spectrum of excited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-15 C. Q. Huang , H. Kröger , X. Q. Luo , K. J. M. Moriarty

Continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo refers to a class of algorithms designed to sample the thermal distribution of a quantum Hamiltonian through exact expansions of the Boltzmann exponential in terms of stochastic trajectories which are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-17 Luke Causer , Konstantinos Sfairopoulos , Jamie F. Mair , Juan P. Garrahan

We present a Monte Carlo method that efficiently computes the density of states for spin models having any number of interaction per spin. By combining a random-walk in the energy space with collective updates controlled by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sylvain Reynal , Hung-The Diep

We introduce a `virtual-move' Monte Carlo (VMMC) algorithm for systems of pairwise-interacting particles. This algorithm facilitates the simulation of particles possessing attractions of short range and arbitrary strength and geometry, an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stephen Whitelam , Phillip L. Geissler

We introduce a constrained Monte Carlo method which allows us to traverse the phase space of a classical spin system while fixing the magnetization direction. Subsequently we show the method's capability to model the temperature dependence…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-22 P. Asselin , R. F. L. Evans , J. Barker , R. W. Chantrell , R. Yanes , O. Chubykalo-Fesenko , D. Hinzke , U. Nowak

We present a new Monte Carlo method which couples Path Integral for finite temperature protons with Quantum Monte Carlo for ground state electrons, and we apply it to metallic hydrogen for pressures beyond molecular dissociation. We report…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carlo Pierleoni , David M. Ceperley , Markus Holzmann

A first-order liquid-liquid phase transition in high-pressure hydrogen between molecular and atomic fluid phases has been predicted in computer simulations using ab initio molecular dynamics approaches. However, experiments indicate that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kris T. Delaney , Carlo Pierleoni , D. M. Ceperley

With the path integral approach, the thermal average in a multi-electronic-state quantum systems can be approximated by the ring polymer representation on an extended configuration space, where the additional degrees of freedom are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Xiaoyu Lei , Zhennan Zhou

A simple Monte Carlo procedure is described for simulating the multiple scattering and absorption of electrons with the incident energy in the range 1-50 keV moving through a slab of uniformly distributed material of given atomic number,…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Nima Ghal-eh , Mohammad Farhad Rahimi , Mehrnoush Manouchehri

Efficient sampling from high-dimensional distributions is a challenging issue which is encountered in many large data recovery problems involving Markov chain Monte Carlo schemes. In this context, sampling using Hamiltonian dynamics is one…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-02-02 Lotfi Chaari , Jean-Yves Tourneret , Caroline Chaux , Hadj Batatia

Estimating thermal expectation values of observables is a fundamental task in quantum physics, quantum chemistry, and materials science. While recent quantum algorithms have enabled efficient quantum preparation of thermal states,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Jiaqing Jiang , Jiaqi Leng , Lin Lin

We developed a Monte Carlo simulation method to calculate incoherent Thomson scattering spectra in high temperature plasmas. The basic idea is to treat the entire scattering process as the superposition of individual photon-electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Kentaro Sakai , Kentaro Tomita , Takeo Hoshi , Ryo Yasuhara

We propose a sampling-based framework for finite-horizon trajectory and policy optimization under differentiable dynamics by casting controller design as inference. Specifically, we minimize a KL-regularized expected trajectory cost, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Heng Yang

We present iterative Monte Carlo algorithm for which the temperature variable is attracted by a critical point. The algorithm combines techniques of single histogram reweighting and linear filtering. The 2d Ising model of ferromagnet is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Gmitra , D. Horvath