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We propose a new method called the Metropolis-adjusted Mirror Langevin algorithm for approximate sampling from distributions whose support is a compact and convex set. This algorithm adds an accept-reject filter to the Markov chain induced…

Computation · Statistics 2024-06-24 Vishwak Srinivasan , Andre Wibisono , Ashia Wilson

Deep learning applications require global optimization of non-convex objective functions, which have multiple local minima. The same problem is often found in physical simulations and may be resolved by the methods of Langevin dynamics with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-24 Oleksandr Borysenko , Maksym Byshkin

The random batch method is advantageous in accelerating force calculations in particle simulations, but it poses a challenge of removing the artificial heating effect in application to the Langevin dynamics. We develop an approach to solve…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Zhenli Xu , Yue Zhao , Qi Zhou

How can we learn the laws underlying the dynamics of stochastic systems when their trajectories are sampled sparsely in time? Existing methods either require temporally resolved high-frequency observations, or rely on geometric arguments…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Dimitra Maoutsa

Numerical simulations of fast remagnetization processes using the stochastic dynamics are widely used to study various magnetic systems. In this paper we first address several crucial methodological problems of such simulations: (i) the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Dmitri V. Berkov , Natalia L. Gorn

The stochastic gradient Langevin Dynamics is one of the most fundamental algorithms to solve sampling problems and non-convex optimization appearing in several machine learning applications. Especially, its variance reduced versions have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Yuri Kinoshita , Taiji Suzuki

We investigate the dynamics of heavy impurities embedded in an ultra-cold Fermi gas by using a Generalized Langevin equation. The latter -- derived by means of influence functional theory -- describes the stochastic classical dynamics of…

Langevin simulation provides an effective way to study collisional effects in beams by reducing the six-dimensional Fokker-Planck equation to a group of stochastic ordinary differential equations. These resulting equations usually have…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ji Qiang , Salman Habib

We present the stochastic thermodynamics analysis of an open quantum system weakly coupled to multiple reservoirs and driven by a rapidly oscillating external field. The analysis is built on a modified stochastic master equation in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-12 Gregory Bulnes Cuetara , Andreas Engel , Massimiliano Esposito

We study the collective escape dynamics of a chain of coupled, weakly damped nonlinear oscillators from a metastable state over a barrier when driven by a thermal heat bath in combination with a weak, globally acting periodic perturbation.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-09-22 D. Hennig , L. Schimansky-Geier , P. Hänggi

This note provides an introduction to molecular dynamics, the computational implementation of the theory of statistical physics. The discussion is focused on the properties of Langevin dynamics, a degenerate stochastic differential equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-16 Gabriel Stoltz

For a gas-solid interfacial system where chemical species undergo reversible adsorption, we develop a mesoscopic stochastic modeling method that simulates both gas-phase hydrodynamics and surface coverage dynamics by coupling the Langmuir…

Through an exact analysis using quantum Langevin dynamics, we demonstrate the crossover from ballistic to diffusive thermal transport in a harmonic chain with each site connected to Ohmic heat reservoirs. The temperatures of the two heat…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dibyendu Roy

In this article, we focus on the sampling of the configurational Gibbs-Boltzmann distribution, that is, the calculation of averages of functions of the position coordinates of a molecular $N$-body system modelled at constant temperature. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Benedict Leimkuhler , Charles Matthews

We consider the stochastic dynamics of a system linearly coupled to a hierarchical thermal bath with two well-separated inherent timescales: one slow, and one fast. The slow part of the bath is modeled as a set of harmonic oscillators and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-05 A. V. Plyukhin

Markedly increased computational power and data acquisition have led to growing interest in data-driven inverse dynamics problems. These seek to answer a fundamental question: What can we learn from time series measurements of a complex…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-29 Jinghao Lyu , Kyle J. Ray , James P. Crutchfield

In this article we derive the effective pairwise interactions in a Langevin type united atoms model of water. The interactions are determined from the trajectories of a detailed molecular dynamics simulation of simple point charge water. A…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Anders Eriksson , Martin Nilsson Jacobi , Johan Nystrom , Kolbjorn Tunstrom

Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics (SGLD) ensures strong guarantees with regards to convergence in measure for sampling log-concave posterior distributions by adding noise to stochastic gradient iterates. Given the size of many practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Bapi Chatterjee , Dan Alistarh

This work obtains the efficiency at maximum power for a stochastic heat engine performing Carnot-like, Stirling-like and Ericsson-like cycles. For the mesoscopic engine a Brownian particle trapped by an optical tweezers is considered. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-02 O. Contreras-Vergara , N. Sánchez-Salas , G. Valencia-Ortega , J. I. Jiménez-Aquino

A recently proposed method for computer simulations in the isothermal-isobaric (NPT) ensemble, based on Langevin-type equations of motion for the particle coordinates and the ``piston'' degree of freedom, is re-derived by straightforward…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 A. Kolb , B. Duenweg