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This paper presents a probabilistic perspective on iterative methods for approximating the solution $\mathbf{x}_* \in \mathbb{R}^d$ of a nonsingular linear system $\mathbf{A} \mathbf{x}_* = \mathbf{b}$. In the approach a standard iterative…

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We present a new method, in the following called MMM2D, to accurately calculate the electrostatic energy and forces on charges being distributed in a two dimensional periodic array of finite thickness. It is not based on an Ewald summation…

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A new repeated-slab calculation method is developed to simulate the electronic structures of charged surfaces by arranging density-variable charged sheets in vacuum regions to realize a constant potential on the charged sheets and maintain…

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We revisit the popular notion of effective or renormalized charge, which is a concept of central importance in the field of highly charged colloidal or polyelectrolyte solutions. Working at the level of a linear Debye-H\"uckel like theory…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Emmanuel Trizac , Lyderic Bocquet , Miguel Aubouy

We calculate the electrostatic potential and electric field of a uniformly charged disk everywhere in space. This electrostatic problem was solved long ago, and its gravitational analogue - even earlier. However, it seems that physics…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-09-28 V. Bochko , Z. K. Silagadze

Determination of the electric potential of insulated conducting objects is an important problem both theoretically and practically. For an insulated conducting object in the presence of external charges or charges distributed on the object…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Karlo Filipan , Hrvoje Štefančić

We propose a matrix-free algorithm for evaluating linear combinations of $\varphi$-function actions, $w_i := \sum_{j=0}^{p} \alpha_i^{\,j}\,\varphi_j(t_i A)v_j$ for $i=1\colon r$, arising in exponential integrators. The method combines the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Awad H. Al-Mohy

We use a simple electrostatic treatment to model recent experiments on quantum Hall systems, in which charging of localised states by addition of integer or fractionally-charged quasiparticles is observed. Treating the localised state as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-17 Ana L. C. Pereira , J. T. Chalker

We derive a set of complex potentials which linearize the action of charging symmetries of the stationary Einstein-Maxwell dilaton-axion theory.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Alfredo Herrera-Aguilar , Oleg Kechkin

Coulomb interactions of point charges can be calculated in $\mathcal{O}$(N) computation using the fast multipole method and direct calculations between charges nearby. It reduces computational cost dramatically, however, because of its…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Yasuhiro Kajima

We investigate the approximation for computing the sum $a_1+...+a_n$ with an input of a list of nonnegative elements $a_1,..., a_n$. If all elements are in the range $[0,1]$, there is a randomized algorithm that can compute an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-03-01 Bin Fu , Wenfeng Li , Zhiyong Peng

The Coulomb problem for continuous charge distributions is a central problem in physics. Powerful methods, that scale linearly with system size and that allow us to use different resolutions in different regions of space are therefore…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Goedecker , O. V. Ivanov

Free energy calculations are widely used tools in computational chemistry, but their dependence on the assignment of partial charges during force field parametrization reduces their accuracy and reproducibility. In this work, we highlight…

The potential concept that is successful in classical electrodynamics should also be applicable to the nonlinear electromagnetic forces acting on matter. The obvious method of determining these potentials should be provided by Helmholtz's…

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Many integral equation-based methods are available for problems of time-harmonic electromagnetic scattering from perfect electric conductors. Among the many challenges that arise in such calculations are the avoidance of spurious…

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We consider an ensemble of interacting charged particles on the line consisting of two species of particles with charge ratio 2 : 1 in the presence of the harmonic oscillator potential. The system is assumed to be at temperature…

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Over the last two decades, several fast, robust, and high-order accurate methods have been developed for solving the Poisson equation in complicated geometry using potential theory. In this approach, rather than discretizing the partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-19 Fredrik Fryklund , Leslie Greengard , Shidong Jiang , Samuel Potter

Power flow calculations for systems with a large number of buses, e.g. grids with multiple voltage levels, or time series based calculations result in a high computational effort. A common power flow solver for the efficient analysis of…

Computation · Statistics 2018-04-19 Florian Schäfer , Martin Braun

The evaluation of the electrostatic potential is fundamental to the study of condensed phase systems. We discuss the calculation of the relevant lattice summations by Ewald-type techniques. A model charge density is introduced, that cancels…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-14 Chiara Ribaldone , Jacques Kontak Desmarais

We consider space-saving versions of several important operations on univariate polynomials, namely power series inversion and division, division with remainder, multi-point evaluation, and interpolation. Now-classical results show that…

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