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The Poisson--Boltzmann equation is widely used to model electrostatics in molecular systems. Available software packages solve it using finite difference, finite element, and boundary element methods, where the latter is attractive due to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Michal Bosy , Matthew W. Scroggs , Timo Betcke , Erik Burman , Christopher D. Cooper

A widely used electrostatics model in the biomolecular modeling community, the nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation, along with its finite element approximation, are analyzed in this paper. A regularized Poisson-Boltzmann equation is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-01-12 Long Chen , Michael Holst , Jinchao Xu

We introduce the stochastic Boltzmann equation (SBE) as an approach for exploring the spin dynamics of magnetic molecules coupled to a stochastic environment. The SBE is a time-evolution equation for the probability density of the spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-03-15 Daniel M. Packwood , Helmut G. Katzgraber , Winfried Teizer

We present a reformulation of the functional renormalization group (fRG) for many-electron systems, which relies on the recently introduced single boson exchange (SBE) representation of the parquet equations [Phys. Rev. B 100, 155149…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-06 Pietro M. Bonetti , Alessandro Toschi , Cornelia Hille , Sabine Andergassen , Demetrio Vilardi

The Poisson-Boltzmann equation is a nonlinear elliptic equation with Dirac distribution sources, which has been widely applied to the prediction of electrostatics potential of biological biomolecular systems in solution. In this paper, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Linghan Huang , Shi Shu , Ying Yang

The size-modified Poisson-Boltzmann equation (SMPBE) is one important variant of the popular dielectric model, the Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE), to reflect ionic size effects in the prediction of electrostatics for a biomolecule in an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-21 Jinyong Ying , Dexuan Xie

The Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) can provide an accurate description of low-energy optical spectra of insulating crystals - even when excitonic effects are important. However, due to high computational costs it is only possible to include…

We present an efficient and robust semi-analytical formulation to compute the electric potential due to arbitrary-located point electrodes in three-dimensional cylindrically stratified media, where the radial thickness and the medium…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Haksu Moon , Fernando L. Teixeira , Burkay Donderici

A numerical method using implicit surface representations is proposed to solve the linearized Poisson-Boltzmann equations that arise in mathematical models for the electrostatics of molecules in solvent. The proposed method used an implicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Yimin Zhong , Kui Ren , Richard Tsai

We study low-rank tensor-product B-spline (TPBS) models for regression tasks and investigate Dirichlet energy as a measure of smoothness. We show that TPBS models admit a closed-form expression for the Dirichlet energy, and reveal scenarios…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Paris A. Karakasis , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos

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…

The Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) is a reliable model for estimating the absorption spectra in molecules and solids on the basis of accurate calculation of the excited states from first principles. This challenging task includes calculation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Peter Benner , Venera Khoromskaia , Boris N. Khoromskij

The Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) formalism is a computationally affordable method for the calculation of accurate optical excitation energies in molecular systems. Similar to the ubiquitous adiabatic approximation of time-dependent…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 Pierre-François Loos , Xavier Blase

The Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) is currently the state of the art in the description of neutral electron excitations in both solids and large finite systems. It is capable of accurately treating charge-transfer excitations that present…

We present a method using Feynman-like diagrams to calculate the statistical properties of random many-body potentials. This method provides a promising alternative to existing techniques typically applied to this class of problems, such as…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-23 Rupert Small , Sebastian Müller

This paper presents a systematic methodology for the discretization and reduction of a class of one-dimensional Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) with inputs and outputs collocated at the spatial boundaries. The class of system that we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Jesus-Pablo Toledo-Zucco , Denis Matignon , Charles Poussot-Vassal , Yann Le Gorrec

Electrostatic interactions play crucial roles in biophysical processes such as protein folding and molecular recognition. Poisson-Boltzmann equation (PBE)-based models have emerged as widely used in modeling these important processes.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-04-11 Ruxi Qi , Wesley M. Botello-Smith , Ray Luo

The description of a conducting medium in thermal equilibrium, such as an electrolyte solution or a plasma, involves nonlinear electrostatics, a subject rarely discussed in the standard electricity and magnetism textbooks. We consider in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 C. G. Gray , P. J. Stiles

Recently, sparsity-based algorithms are proposed for super-resolution spectrum estimation. However, to achieve adequately high resolution in real-world signal analysis, the dictionary atoms have to be close to each other in frequency,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-05 Yiyuan She , Huanghuang Li , Jiangping Wang , Dapeng Wu

A finite element discretization using a method of lines approached is proposed for approximately solving the Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) equations. This discretization scheme enforces positivity of the computed solutions, corresponding to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Chun Liu , Maximilian Metti , Jinchao Xu