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A new method, based on the simulated annealing algorithm and aimed at the inverse problem in the analysis of intergalactic (interstellar) complex spectra of hydrogen and metal lines, is presented. We consider the process of line formation…

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We study lithium systems over a range of number of atoms, e.g., atomic anion, dimer, metallic cluster, and body-centered cubic crystal by the diffusion Monte Carlo method. The calculations include both core and valence electrons in order to…

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Real-space quantum Monte Carlo is used to calculate the total atomization energy of benzene. In contrast to orbital-space methods common in quantum chemistry, real-space methods allow results at near the complete-basis-set limit to be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-21 Iliya Sabzevari , Sandeep Sharma

Monte Carlo methods play important part in modern statistical physics. The application of these methods suffer from two main difficulties.The first is caused by the relatively small number of particles that can participate in any numerical…

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The conventional theory of homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation in a supersaturated vapor is tested by Monte Carlo simulations of the lattice gas (Ising) model with nearest-neighbor attractive interactions on the simple cubic lattice.…

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Context: Recent reaction rate evaluations include reaction rate uncertainties that have been determined in a statistically meaningful manner. Furthermore, reaction rate probability density distributions have been determined and published in…

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Monte Carlo methods are used to study the phase transition in ammonium chloride from the orientationally ordered $\delta$ phase to the orientationally disordered $\gamma$ phase. An effective pair potential is used to model the interaction…

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While kinetic Monte Carlo simulations can provide long-time simulations of the dynamics of physical and chemical systems, it is not yet possible in general to identify the inverse Monte Carlo attempt frequency with a physical timescale.…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Abou Hamad , P. A. Rikvold , G. Brown

We present a novel quantum Monte Carlo method based on a path integral in Fock space, which allows to compute finite-temperature properties of a many-body nuclear system with a monopole pairing interaction in the canonical ensemble. It…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-01-23 N. J. Cerf

The nested sampling algorithm has been shown to be a general method for calculating the pressure-temperature-composition phase diagrams of materials. While the previous implementation used single-particle Monte Carlo moves, these are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-17 Robert J. N. Baldock , Noam Bernstein , K. Michael Salerno , Lívia B. Pártay , Gábor Csányi

We calculate the equation of state of neutron matter at zero temperature by means of the auxiliary field diffusion Monte Carlo method (AFDMC) combined with a fixed-phase approximation. The calculation of the energy is carried out by…

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Monte Carlo methods represent the "de facto" standard for approximating complicated integrals involving multidimensional target distributions. In order to generate random realizations from the target distribution, Monte Carlo techniques use…

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Computed Tomography (CT) imaging, while essential for diagnostics, exposes patients to ionizing radiation. To accurately quantify radiation dosage, this study introduces MIDSX, a specialized open-source Monte Carlo (MC) photon transport…

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The configuration-interaction shell model approach provides an attractive framework for the calculation of nuclear level densities in the presence of correlations, but the large dimensionality of the model space has hindered its application…

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An iterative algorithm based on Monte Carlo method is used to model thin film growth of AB type molecule and crystallization. Primarly, PVD technique is investigated since it is one of the most preferred on thin film growth processes. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-10-17 İzzet Paruğ Duru , Şahin Aktaş

A novel method for simulating the statistical mechanics of molecular systems in which both nuclear and electronic degrees of freedom are treated quantum mechanically is presented. The scheme combines a path integral description of the…

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We present iterative Monte Carlo algorithm for which the temperature variable is attracted by a critical point. The algorithm combines techniques of single histogram reweighting and linear filtering. The 2d Ising model of ferromagnet is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Gmitra , D. Horvath

In the Monte Carlo (MC) method statistical noise is usually present. Statistical noise may become dominant in the calculation of a distribution, usually by iteration, but is less Important in calculating integrals. The subject of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-11-08 Mihály Makai , Zoltán Szatmáry

Through the Bayesian lens of data assimilation, uncertainty on model parameters is traditionally quantified through the posterior covariance matrix. However, in modern settings involving high-dimensional and computationally expensive…

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