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We consider Adaptively Restrained Langevin dynamics, in which the kinetic energy function vanishes for small velocities. Properly parameterized, this dynamics makes it possible to reduce the computational complexity of updating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-28 Zofia Trstanova , Stephane Redon

In stochastic processes with absorbing states, the quasi-stationary distribution provides valuable insights into the long-term behaviour prior to absorption. In this work, we revisit two well-established numerical methods for its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-01 Sara Oliver-Bonafoux , Javier Aguilar , Tobias Galla , Raúl Toral

In this study, we give an extension of Montanaro's arXiv/archive:1504.06987 quantum Monte Carlo method, tailored for computing expected values of random variables that exhibit infinite variance. This addresses a challenge in analyzing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Jose Blanchet , Mario Szegedy , Guanyang Wang

Computer simulation methods, such as Monte Carlo or Molecular Dynamics, are very powerful computational techniques that provide detailed and essentially exact information on classical many-body problems. With the advent of ab-initio…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-06-23 Thomas D. Kühne

Despite its widespread use in materials science, conventional molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are severely constrained by timescale limitations. To address this shortcoming, we propose an empirical formulation of accelerated MD method,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-10 Liang Wan , Qingsong Mei , Haowen Liu , Huafeng Zhang , Jun-Ping Du , Shigenobu Ogata , Wen Tong Geng

It is a challenge to obtain an accurate model of the state-to-state dynamics of a complex biological system from molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. In recent years, Markov State Models have gained immense popularity for computing…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Animesh Agarwal , Nicolas W. Hengartner , S. Gnanakaran , Arthur F. Voter

Adaptive Kinetic Monte Carlo combines the simplicity of Kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) with a Molecular Dynamics (MD) based saddle point search algorithm in order to simulate metastable systems. Key to making Adaptive KMC effective is a stopping…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 D. Aristoff , S. Chill , G. Simpson

Sampling from distributions play a crucial role in aiding practitioners with statistical inference. However, in numerous situations, obtaining exact samples from complex distributions is infeasible. Consequently, researchers often turn to…

Computation · Statistics 2024-04-01 Riddhiman Bhattacharya , Tiefeng Jiang

This paper presents a class of one-dimensional cellular automata (CA) models on traffic flows, featuring nonlocal look-ahead interactions. We develop kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) algorithms to simulate the dynamics. The standard KMC method can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Yi Sun , Changhui Tan

In simulation-based inferences for partially observed Markov process models (POMP), the by-product of the Monte Carlo filtering is an approximation of the log likelihood function. Recently, iterated filtering [14, 13] has originally been…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-02-26 Dao Nguyen

We consider problems of minimizing functionals $\mathcal{F}$ of probability measures on the Euclidean space. To propose an accelerated gradient descent algorithm for such problems, we consider gradient flow of transport maps that give…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Ken'ichiro Tanaka

Uncertainty estimation is a key issue when considering the application of deep neural network methods in science and engineering. In this work, we introduce a novel algorithm that quantifies epistemic uncertainty via Monte Carlo sampling…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-06 Sebastian Bieringer , Gregor Kasieczka , Maximilian F. Steffen , Mathias Trabs

We consider generalizations of the classical inverse problem to Bayesien type estimators, where the result is not one optimal parameter but an optimal probability distribution in parameter space. The practical computational tool to compute…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-03 Michael Herty , Christian Ringhofer

We introduce a Monte Carlo algorithm to efficiently compute transport properties of chaotic dynamical systems. Our method exploits the importance sampling technique that favors trajectories in the tail of the distribution of displacements,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-25 Diego Tapias , David P. Sanders , Eduardo G. Altmann

Fourier acceleration has been successfully applied to the simulation of lattice field theories for more than a decade. In this paper, we extend the method to the dynamics of discrete particles moving in continuum. Although our method is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Francis J. Alexander , Bruce M. Boghosian , Richard C. Brower , S. Roy Kimura

For the description of thermally activated dynamics in systems of classical magnetic moments numerical methods are desirable. We consider a simple model for isolated magnetic particles in a uniform field with an oblique angle to the easy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 U. Nowak , R. W. Chantrell , E. C. Kennedy

We present an algorithm for the simulation of the exact real-time dynamics of classical many-body systems with discrete energy levels. In the same spirit of kinetic Monte Carlo methods, a stochastic solution of the master equation is found,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-20 Alejandro Mendoza-Coto , Rogelio Díaz-Méndez , Guido Pupillo

We propose an ab-initio molecular dynamics method, capable to reduce dramatically the autocorrelation time required for the simulation of classical and quantum particles at finite temperature. The method is based on an efficient…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-11 Sandro Sorella , Guglielmo Mazzola

Direct simulation of biomolecular dynamics in thermal equilibrium is challenging due to the metastable nature of conformation dynamics and the computational cost of molecular dynamics. Biased or enhanced sampling methods may improve the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Benjamin Trendelkamp-Schroer , Frank Noe

Monte Carlo methods use random sampling to estimate numerical quantities which are hard to compute deterministically. One important example is the use in statistical physics of rapidly mixing Markov chains to approximately compute partition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-12 Ashley Montanaro