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Many complex real world phenomena exhibit abrupt, intermittent or jumping behaviors, which are more suitable to be described by stochastic differential equations under non-Gaussian L\'evy noise. Among these complex phenomena, the most…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-15 Wei Wei , Ting Gao , Jinqiao Duan , Xiaoli Chen

The meaning of thermodynamic descriptions is found in large-deviations scaling of the fluctuations probabilities. The primary large-deviations rate function is the entropy, which is the basis for both fluctuation theorems and for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 Eric Smith

Direct numerical evaluation of the real-time path integral has a well-known sign problem that makes convergence exponentially slow. One promising remedy is to use Picard-Lefschetz theory to flow the domain of the field variables into the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-06-19 Zong-Gang Mou , Paul M. Saffin , Anders Tranberg , Simon Woodward

The extended Gutzwiller trajectory approach is presented for the semiclassical description of nuclear collective dynamics, in line with the main topics of the fruitful activity of V.G. Solovjov. Within the Fermi-liquid droplet model, the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 A. G. Magner , D. V. Gorpinchenko , J. Bartel

A model reduction technique based on an optimization principle is employed to coarse-grain inviscid, incompressible fluid dynamics in two dimensions. In this reduction the spectrally-truncated vorticity equation defines the microdynamics,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-21 Bruce Turkington , Qian-Yong Chen , Simon Thalabard

In this paper we show that the existence of a primarily discrete space-time may be a fruitful assumption from which we may develop a new approach of statistical thermodynamics in pre-relativistic conditions. The discreetness of space-time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-17 J. P. Badiali

By optimal fluctuation method, we study short-time distribution $P(\mathcal{A}=A)$ of the functionals, $\mathcal{A}=\int_{0}^{t_f} x^n(t) dt$, along constrained trajectories of random acceleration process for a given time duration $t_f$,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-18 Hanshuang Chen , Lulu Tian , Guofeng Li

We present a hybrid method combining a minimizing movement scheme with neural operators for the simulation of phase field-based Willmore flow. The minimizing movement component is based on a standard optimization problem on a regular grid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Martin Rumpf , Josua Sassen , Christoph Smoch

This paper studies the shallow Ritz method for solving one-dimensional diffusion-reaction problems. The method is capable of improving the order of approximation for non-smooth problems. By following a similar approach to the one presented…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Zhiqiang Cai , Anastassia Doktorova , Robert D. Falgout , César Herrera

Phase retrieval problems involve solving linear equations, but with missing sign (or phase, for complex numbers) information. More than four decades after it was first proposed, the seminal error reduction algorithm of (Gerchberg and Saxton…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-15 Praneeth Netrapalli , Prateek Jain , Sujay Sanghavi

Turbulence transition often arises from a subcritical transition between bistable states characterized by invariant sets of deterministic dynamical systems, and such transitions can be triggered by system noise as rare events. In this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-08 Yoshiki Hiruta , Kento Yasuda , Kenta Ishimoto

We propose a regularization framework inspired by thermodynamic work for guiding pre-trained probability flow generative models (e.g., continuous normalizing flows or diffusion models) by minimizing excess work, a concept rooted in…

We describe a robust and efficient chain-of-states method for computing Minimum Energy Paths~(MEPs) associated to barrier-crossing events in poly-atomic systems. The path is parametrized in terms of a continuous variable $t \in [0,1]$ that…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-10-26 E. R. Hernandez , C. P. Herrero , J. M. Soler

We explore the potential of the deep Ritz method to learn complex fracture processes such as quasistatic crack nucleation, propagation, kinking, branching, and coalescence within the unified variational framework of phase-field modeling of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 M. Manav , R. Molinaro , S. Mishra , L. De Lorenzis

The quantum dissipative dynamics of a tunneling process through double barrier structures is investigated on the basis of a rigorous treatment for the first time. We employ a Caldeira-Leggett Hamiltonian with an effective potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-28 Atsunori Sakurai , Yoshitaka Tanimura

We propose a second-order method for unconditional minimization of functions $f(z)$ of complex arguments. We call it the Mixed Newton Method due to the use of the mixed Wirtinger derivative $\frac{\partial^2f}{\partial\bar z\partial z}$ for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Sergey Bakhurin , Roland Hildebrand , Mohammad Alkousa , Alexander Titov , Nikita Yudin

We derive a fluid-dynamic model for electron transport near a Dirac point in graphene. The derivation is based on the minimum entropy principle, which is exploited in order to close fluid-dynamic equations for quantum mixed states. To this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-27 Nicola Zamponi , Luigi Barletti

Nongradient stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with position-dependent and anisotropic diffusion are often used in biological modeling. The quasi-potential is a crucial function in the Large Deviation Theory that allows one to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Daisy Dahiya , Maria Cameron

Optimal power flow (OPF) is a critical optimization problem for power systems to operate at points where cost or other operational objectives are optimized. Due to the non-convexity of the set of feasible OPF operating points, it is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Daniel Turizo , Diego Cifuentes , Anton Leykin , Daniel K. Molzahn

In this paper the optimal transport and the metamorphosis perspectives are combined. For a pair of given input images geodesic paths in the space of images are defined as minimizers of a resulting path energy. To this end, the underlying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-09 Jan Maas , Martin Rumpf , Carola Schönlieb , Stefan Simon