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This work proposes a fast iterative method for local steric Poisson--Boltzmann (PB) theories, in which the electrostatic potential is governed by the Poisson's equation and ionic concentrations satisfy equilibrium conditions. To present the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Minhong Chen , Wei Dou , Shenggao Zhou

Quantum computers have the potential to efficiently solve a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs), which play a crucial role in various industries and scientific fields. However, it remains unclear which system of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-07 Yu Tanaka , Keisuke Fujii

Probabilistic models can be defined by an energy function, where the probability of each state is proportional to the exponential of the state's negative energy. This paper considers a generalization of energy-based models in which the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-05-25 Jan Humplik , Gašper Tkačik

For the finite element solution of Poisson's equation, a local a posteriori error estimation based on the Hypercircle method is proposed. Even for the solution of Poisson's equation without the $H^2$ regularity, this method can provide…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-24 Taiga Nakano , Xuefeng Liu

The Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE) is a relevant partial differential equation commonly used in biophysical applications to estimate the electrostatic energy of biomolecular systems immersed in electrolytic solutions. A conventional mean…

With already demonstrated in previous work the equations that describe the space dependence of the electric potential are determined by the solution of the equation of Poisson-Boltzmann. In this work we consider these solutions for the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2008-09-30 M. A. G. Soares , F. A. O. Cruz , C. M. Cortez

The calculation time for the energy of atoms and molecules scales exponentially with system size on a classical computer but polynomially using quantum algorithms. We demonstrate that such algorithms can be applied to problems of chemical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alán Aspuru-Guzik , Anthony D. Dutoi , Peter J. Love , Martin Head-Gordon

Non-equilibrium electrochemistry raises new challenges for atomistic simulation: we need to perform molecular dynamics for the nuclear degrees of freedom with an explicit description of the electrons, which in turn must be free to enter and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Mario G. Zauchner , Andrew P. Horsfield , Tchavdar N. Todorov

We demonstrate that the dynamics of an open quantum system can be calculated efficiently and with predefined error, provided a basis exists in which the system-environment interactions are local and hence obey the Lieb-Robinson bound. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Giulia Gualdi , Christiane P. Koch

Using exact results from the theory of completely integrable systems of the Painleve/Toda type, we examine the consequences for the theory of polyelectrolytes in the (nonlinear) Poisson-Boltzmann approximation.

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-07-11 C. A. Tracy , H. Widom

This paper establishes optimal error estimates in the $L^2$ for the non-symmetric Nitsche method in an unfitted interface finite element setting. Extending our earlier work, we give a complete analysis for the Poisson interface model and,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Gang Chen , Chaoran Liu , Yangwen Zhang

At low reduced electric fields the electron energy distribution function in heavy noble gases can take two distinct shapes. This "bistability effect" - in which electron-electron (Coulomb) collisions play an essential role - is analyzed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Nikolay Dyatko , Zoltan Donko

Physico-chemical continuum battery models are typically parameterized by manual fits, relying on the individual expertise of researchers. In this article, we introduce a computer algorithm that directly utilizes the experience of battery…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-02-08 Yannick Kuhn , Hannes Wolf , Arnulf Latz , Birger Horstmann

We present a general approach to error detection of bosonic quantum error-correction codes via an adaptive quantum phase estimation algorithm assisted by a single ancilla qubit. The approach is applicable to a broad class of bosonic codes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Yuan-De Jin , Shi-Yu Zhang , Ulrik L. Andersen , Wen-Long Ma

The difference of the values of observables for the time-independent Schroedinger equation, with matrix valued potentials, and the values of observables for ab initio Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics, of the ground state, depends on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Christian Bayer , Hakon Hoel , Ashraful Kadir , Petr Plechac , Mattias Sandberg , Anders Szepessy

The nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation (NPBE) is an elliptic partial differential equation used in applications such as protein interactions and biophysical chemistry (among many others). It describes the nonlinear electrostatic potential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-29 Trevor Norton , Jie Xu , Brian Choi , Mark Kon , Julio Enrique Castrillón-Candás

This work further improves the pseudo-transient approach for the Poisson Boltzmann equation (PBE) in the electrostatic analysis of solvated biomolecules. The numerical solution of the nonlinear PBE is known to involve many difficulties,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Benjamin Jones , Sheik Ahmed Ullah , Siwen Wang , Shan Zhao

We study the a priori error analysis of finite element methods for Biot's consolidation model. We consider a formulation which has the stress tensor, the fluid flux, the solid displacement, and the pore pressure as unknowns. Two mixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-23 Jeonghun J. Lee

It is now well established that there is no lower bound for the energy dissipated during a computation. The relevance of the zero-energy limit is unclear, however, because it entails computations that are unreliable or infinitely slow, or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-21 Dominique Chu

A simple yet efficient computational algorithm for computing the continuous optimal experimental design for linear models is proposed. An alternative proof the monotonic convergence for $D$-optimal criterion on continuous design spaces are…

Computation · Statistics 2018-04-10 Jiangtao Duan , Wei Gao , Hon Keung Tony Ng