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In this work, we develop a probabilistic estimator for the voltage-to-current map arising in electrical impedance tomography. This novel so-called partially reflecting random walk on spheres estimator enables Monte Carlo methods to compute…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-17 Sylvain Maire , Martin Simon

This paper introduces a new approach for solving electrical impedance tomography (EIT) problems using deep neural networks. The mathematical problem of EIT is to invert the electrical conductivity from the Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DtN) map.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Yuwei Fan , Lexing Ying

The boom of semiconductor quantum computing platforms created a demand for computer-aided design and fabrication of quantum devices. Path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) can have an important role in this effort because it intrinsically…

In this paper, we consider an inverse conductivity problem on a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\geq2$, also known as Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT), for the case where unknown impenetrable obstacles are embedded into…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-29 Jiaqing Yang

A kink-based expression for the canonical partition function is developed using Feynman's path integral formulation of quantum mechanics and a discrete basis set. The approach is exact for a complete set of states. The method is tested on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Randall W. Hall

In computational PDE-based inverse problems, a finite amount of data is collected to infer unknown parameters in the PDE. In order to obtain accurate inferences, the collected data must be informative about the unknown parameters. How to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Tan Bui-Thanh , Qin Li , Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez

The Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method is used to evaluate the imaginary-time path integral of a quantum oscillator with a potential that includes both a quadratic term and a quartic term whose coupling is varied by several orders of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-27 Shikhar Mittal , Marise J. E. Westbroek , Peter R. King , Dimitri D. Vvedensky

We propose an improved Path Integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) algorithm called Harmonic PIMC (H-PIMC) and its generalization, Mixed PIMC (M-PIMC). PIMC is a powerful tool for studying quantum condensed phases. However, it often suffers from a low…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Sourav Karmakar , Sutirtha Paul , Adrian Del Maestro , Barak Hirshberg

We deal with the problem of determining the shape of an inclusion embedded in a homogenous background medium. The multifre-quency electrical impedance tomography is used to image the inclusion. For different frequencies, a current is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-21 Jin Cheng , Mourad Choulli , Shuai Lu

Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) is a promising noninvasive imaging technique that reconstructs the spatial conductivity distribution from boundary voltage measurements. However, it poses a highly nonlinear and ill-posed inverse…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Xuanxuan Yang , Yangming Zhang , Haofeng Chen , Gang Ma , Xiaojie Wang

A path-integral hybrid Monte Carlo approach with enveloping bridging potentials (PIHMC-EBP) is proposed for calculating numerically exact tunneling splittings in molecular systems. The central idea is to construct an approximately…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Yu-Chen Wang , Jeremy O. Richardson

Accurate thermodynamic simulations of correlated fermions using path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) methods are of paramount importance for many applications such as the description of ultracold atoms, electrons in quantum dots, and warm-dense…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Tobias Dornheim , Michele Invernizzi , Jan Vorberger , Barak Hirshberg

We combine ab initio path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations with fixed ion configurations from density functional theory molecular dynamics (DFT-MD) simulations to solve the electronic problem for hydrogen under warm dense matter…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 Maximilian Böhme , Zhandos A. Moldabekov , Jan Vorberger , Tobias Dornheim

The problem of Relativistic Oscillator has been studied in the framework of Path Integral Monte-Carlo(PIMC) approach. Ultra-relativistic and non-relativistic limits have been discussed. We show that PIMC method can be effectively used for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-12 Alexandr Ivanov , Oleg Pavlovsky

The static density response of the uniform electron gas is of fundamental importance for numerous applications. Here, we employ the recently developed \textit{ab initio} permutation blocking path integral Monte Carlo (PB-PIMC) technique…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-23 Tobias Dornheim , Simon Groth , Jan Vorberger , Michael Bonitz

Path integral (PI) control problems are a restricted class of non-linear control problems that can be solved formally as a Feyman-Kac path integral and can be estimated using Monte Carlo sampling. In this contribution we review path…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Hilbert Johan Kappen , Hans Christian Ruiz

The quantum theory of the Friedmann cosmological model with dust and cosmological constant ($\Lambda$) is not exactly solvable analytically. We apply Path Integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) techniques to study its quantum dynamics using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-10 Masooma Ali , Syed Moeez Hassan , Viqar Husain

We propose a new numerical method to reconstruct the isotropic electrical conductivity from measured restricted Dirichlet-to-Neumann map data in electrical impedance tomography (EIT) model. "Restricted Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DtN) map data"…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Michael V. Klibanov , Jingzhi Li , Wenlong Zhang

We carry out highly accurate \emph{ab initio} path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations to directly estimate the free energy of various warm dense matter systems including the uniform electron gas and hydrogen without any nodal…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-07-02 Tobias Dornheim , Zhandos Moldabekov , Sebastian Schwalbe , Jan Vorberger

The accurate description of non-ideal quantum many-body systems is of prime importance for a host of applications within physics, quantum chemistry, material science, and related disciplines. At finite temperatures, the gold standard is…