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Building on our previously introduced Multi-cell Monte Carlo (MC)^2 method for modeling phase coexistence, this paper provides important improvements for efficient determination of phase equilibria in solids. The (MC)^2 method uses multiple…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-01 Edwin Antillon , Maryam Ghazisaeidi

We present the Monte Carlo with Absorbing Markov Chains (MCAMC) method for extremely long kinetic Monte Carlo simulations. The MCAMC algorithm does not modify the system dynamics. It is extremely useful for models with discrete state spaces…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Novotny , Shannon M. Wheeler

We develop a novel multilevel asymptotic-preserving Monte Carlo method, called Multilevel Kinetic-Diffusion Monte Carlo (ML-KDMC), for simulating the kinetic Boltzmann transport equation with a Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) collision…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-23 Bert Mortier , Pieterjan Robbe , Martine Baelmans , Giovanni Samaey

A high-fidelity kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulation method (T. Treeratanaphitak, M. Pritzker, N. M. Abukhdeir, Electrochim. Acta 121 (2014) 407--414) using the semi-empirical multi-body embedded-atom method (EAM) potential has been…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-07-22 Tanyakarn Treeratanaphitak , Mark D. Pritzker , Nasser Mohieddin Abukhdeir

Accurate computational screening of candidate materials promises to accelerate the discovery of higher-efficiency organic photovoltaics (OPVs). However, modelling charge separation in OPVs is challenging because accurate models must include…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-08-28 Jacob T. Willson , Daniel Balzer , Ivan Kassal

This work addresses uncertainty quantification of electromagnetic devices determined by the eddy current problem. The multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) method is used for the treatment of uncertain parameters while the devices are discretized…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Armin Galetzka , Zeger Bontinck , Ulrich Römer , Sebastian Schöps

Kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulations are a powerful tool to study the dynamics of charge carriers in organic photovoltaics. However, the key characteristic of any photovoltaic device, its current-voltage ($J$-$V$) curve under solar…

Kinetic approaches are routinely employed to simulate the dynamics of systems that are too rarified to be described by the Navier-Stokes equations. However, generally they are far too computationally expensive to be applied for systems that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-04-18 Irina Sagert , Dirk Colbry , Terrance Strother , Rodney Pickett , Wolfgang Bauer

We present a multi-lattice kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) approach that efficiently describes the atomistic dynamics of morphological transitions between commensurate structures at crystal surfaces. As an example we study the reduction of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-09 Max J. Hoffmann , Matthias Scheffler , Karsten Reuter

A kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) method is used to study the structural properties and dynamics of a supercooled binary Lennard-Jones liquid around the glass transition temperature. This technique permits us to explore the potential energy…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Javier Hernandez-Rojas , David J. Wales

The Dynamic Monte Carlo (DMC) method is an established molecular simulation technique for the analysis of the dynamics in colloidal suspensions. An excellent alternative to Brownian Dynamics or Molecular Dynamics simulation, DMC is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-15 Fabián A. García Daza , Alejandro Cuetos , Alessandro Patti

Microscopic processes on surfaces such as adsorption, desorption, diffusion and reaction of interacting particles can be simulated using kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) algorithms. Even though kMC methods are accurate, they are computationally…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-12-24 Yannis Pantazis , Markos Katsoulakis

Polymer-assisted ion transport underpins both energy storage technologies and emerging neuromorphic computing devices. Efficient modeling of ion migration is essential for understanding the performance of batteries and memristors, but it…

Developing devices using disordered organic semiconductors requires accurate and practical models of charge transport. In these materials, charge transport occurs through partially delocalised states in an intermediate regime between…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 Jacob T. Willson , William Liu , Daniel Balzer , Ivan Kassal

Continuous-time random disturbances from the renewable generation pose a significant impact on power system dynamic behavior. In evaluating this impact, the disturbances must be considered as continuous-time random processes instead of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-09 Yiwei Qiu , Jin Lin , Xiaoshuang Chen , Feng Liu , Yonghua Song

We present a method to model the interaction and the dynamics of atoms excited to Rydberg states. We show a way to solve the optical Bloch equations for laser excitation of the frozen gas in good agreement with the experiment. A second…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Amodsen Chotia , Matthieu Viteau , Thibault Vogt , Daniel Comparat , Pierre Pillet

The investigation of freezing transitions of single polymers is computationally demanding, since surface effects dominate the nucleation process. In recent studies we have systematically shown that the freezing properties of flexible,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-07-18 Stefan Schnabel , Michael Bachmann , Wolfhard Janke

The reliability of kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulations depends on accurate transition rates. The self-learning KMC method (Trushin et al 2005 Phys. Rev. B 72 115401) combines the accuracy of rates calculated from a realistic potential…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-01-01 A. Latz , L. Brendel , D. E. Wolf

In this paper, we generalize the Quantum Kinetic Monte Carlo (QKMC) method of the Schrodinger equation, which was first proposed by [Z. Cai and J. Lu. SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 40(3):B706-B722, 2018] to the Lindblad equation. This algorithm…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-08-04 Limin Xu

We introduce an algorithm for treating growth on surfaces which combines important features of continuum methods (such as the level-set method) and Kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulations. We treat the motion of adatoms in continuum theory,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Russo , L. M. Sander , P. Smereka