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Some properties of the electron-electron collision operator in graphene are analyzed along with the evaluation of collision rate. Monte Carlo simulations complete the study and highlight the non-negligible role of the electron-electron…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-01-03 Giovanni Nastasi , Vittorio Romano

We calculate the differential, total, and transport cross-sections for scattering of two-dimensional massless Dirac electrons by a circular barrier. For scatterer of a small radius, the cross-sections are dominated by quantum effects such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-02 Jhih-Sheng Wu , Michael M. Fogler

Femtoscopic interferometry is a powerful tool for probing the spatio-temporal evolution of emission sources in heavy-ion collisions. A major challenge in the field is formulating a self-consistent description of the source function,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-11 Sheng Xiao , Yijie Wang , Zhigang Xiao

We present a new efficient method for Monte Carlo simulations of diffusion-reaction processes. First introduced by us in [Phys. Rev. Lett., 97:230602, 2006], the new algorithm skips the traditional small diffusion hops and propagates the…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 T. Oppelstrup , V. V. Bulatov , A. Donev , M. H. Kalos , G. H. Gilmer , B. Sadigh

In this review, we detail the commonality of mathematical intuitions that underlie three numerical methods used for the quantitative description of electron swarms propagating in a gas under the effect of externally applied electric and/or…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-02 Luca Vialetto , Hirotake Sugawara , Savino Longo

It is known that the distribution of nonreversible Markov processes breaking the detailed balance condition converges faster to the stationary distribution compared to reversible processes having the same stationary distribution. This is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-30 Francesco Coghi , Raphael Chetrite , Hugo Touchette

Monte Carlo approaches to radiation transport have several attractive properties such as simplicity of implementation, high accuracy, and good parallel scaling. Moreover, Monte Carlo methods can handle complicated geometries and are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ernazar Abdikamalov , Adam Burrows , Christian D. Ott , Frank Löffler , Evan O'Connor , Joshua C. Dolence , Erik Schnetter

Radiative energy and momentum transfer due to fluctuations of electromagnetic fields arising due to temperature difference between objects is described in terms of the cross-spectral densities of the electromagnetic fields. We derive…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-05 Arvind Narayanaswamy , Yi Zheng

Min et al. (2009) presented two complementary techniques that use the diffusion approximation to allow efficient Monte-Carlo radiation transfer in very optically thick regions: a modified random walk and a partial diffusion approximation.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Thomas P. Robitaille

Indirect imaging problems in biomedical optics generally require repeated evaluation of forward models of radiative transport, for which Monte Carlo is accurate yet computationally costly. We develop a novel approach to reduce this…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-10 Callum M. Macdonald , Simon Arridge , Samuel Powell

We study the coupled two-species non-equilibrium reaction-controlled diffusion model introduced by Trimper et al. [Phys. Rev. E 62, 6071 (2000)] by means of detailed Monte Carlo simulations in one and two dimensions. Particles of type A may…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Beth A. Reid , Jason C. Brunson , Uwe C. Tauber

In this paper we investigate the behavior of particles crossing a neat interface between two media. A Monte Carlo and analytical model, based on fractional derivatives, are presented and discussed in detail, together with a comparison.…

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Interactions between photons and electrons are ubiquitous in astrophysics. Photons can be down scattered (Compton scattering) or up scattered (inverse Compton scattering) by moving electrons. Inverse Compton scattering, in particular, is an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Anderson C. M. Lai , Kenny C. Y. Ng

The diffusion quantum Monte Carlo method is extended to solve the old theoretical physics problem of many-electron atoms and ions in intense magnetic fields. The feature of our approach is the use of adiabatic approximation wave functions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Bucheler , D. Engel , J. Main , G. Wunner

We develop a transfer matrix formalism for four-flux radiative transfer models, which is ideally suited for studying transport through multiple scattering layers. The model, derived for spherical particles within the diffusion…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-23 Brian Slovick , Zachary Flom , Lucas Zipp , Srini Krishnamurthy

Addressing the problem of photon multiple scattering interference caused by turbid media in optical measurements, biomedical imaging, environmental monitoring and other fields, existing Monte Carlo light scattering simulations widely adopt…

Context: Radiative transfer modelling of expanding stellar envelopes is an important task in their analysis. To account for inhomogeneities and deviations from spherical symmetry, it is necessary to develop a 3D approach to radiative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Jakub Fišák , Jiří Kubát , Brankica Kubátová , Markus Kromer , Jiří Krtička

We have modeled the simultaneous first-order Fermi shock acceleration of protons, electrons, and helium nuclei by relativistic shocks. By parameterizing the particle diffusion, our steady-state Monte Carlo simulation allows us to follow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-15 Donald C. Warren , Donald C. Ellison , Andrei M. Bykov , Shiu-Hang Lee

A Green's function in an acoustic medium can be retrieved from reflection data by solving a multidimensional Marchenko equation. This procedure requires a-priori knowledge of the initial focusing function, which can be interpreted as the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Joost van der Neut , Joeri Brackenhoff , Giovanni Meles , Lele Zhang , Evert Slob , Kees Wapenaar