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When calculating satellite trajectories in low-earth orbit, engineers need to adequately estimate aerodynamic forces. But to this day, obtaining the drag acting on the complicated shapes of modern spacecraft suffers from many sources of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-12-16 J. Brent Parham , L. A. Barba

We introduce PHYSICS, a comprehensive benchmark for university-level physics problem solving. It contains 1297 expert-annotated problems covering six core areas: classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, thermodynamics and statistical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Kaiyue Feng , Yilun Zhao , Yixin Liu , Tianyu Yang , Chen Zhao , John Sous , Arman Cohan

This is the manual of the first version of QEDtool, an object-oriented Python package that performs numerical quantum electrodynamics calculations, with focus on full state reconstruction in the internal degrees of freedom, correlations and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-07 Jesse Smeets , Preslav Asenov , Alessio Serafini

We examine the computation of the nucleation barrier used in the expression for false vacuum decay rates in finite temperature field theory. By a detailed analysis of the determinantal prefactor, we show that the correct bounce solution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Gleiser , G. C. Marques , R. O. Ramos

I describe a class of oscillating bounce solutions to the Euclidean field equations for gravity coupled to a scalar field theory with multiple vacua. I discuss their implications for vacuum tunneling transitions and for elucidating the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Erick J. Weinberg

We formulate the transition from decelerated to accelerated expansion as a bounce in connection space and study its quantum cosmology, knowing that reflections are notorious for bringing quantum effects to the fore. We use a formalism for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-18 Steffen Gielen , João Magueijo

We propose to solve inverse problems involving the temporal evolution of physics systems by leveraging recent advances from diffusion models. Our method moves the system's current state backward in time step by step by combining an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Benjamin J. Holzschuh , Simona Vegetti , Nils Thuerey

Extracting information about a system's metastable ground state energy employing functional methods usually hinges on utilizing the late-time behavior of the Euclidean propagator, practically impeding the possibility of determining decay…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-04 Björn Garbrecht , Nils Wagner

Flat-histogram Monte Carlo simulations are well-established, robust methods to perform random walks in a physical observable or parameter space, making them suitable for finding ground states or studying phase transitions in complex systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-28 Thomas Vogel , Ying Wai Li

A recent reformulation [1] of the problem of Coulomb gases in the presence of a dynamical dielectric medium showed that finite temperature simulations of such systems can be accomplished on the basis of completely local Hamiltonians on a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Duncan , R. D. Sedgewick

A unified approach, for solving a wide class of single and many-body quantum problems, commonly encountered in literature is developed based on a recently proposed method for finding solutions of linear differential equations. Apart from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Gurappa , Prasanta K. Panigrahi , R. Atre , T. Shreecharan

The zero temperature relaxational dynamics of a particle in a short range correlated random potential is addressed. We derive a set of "two-times" mean-field dynamical equations, accounting for a possible mean displacement of the particle…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Fabrice Thalmann

DRalgo is an algorithmic implementation that constructs an effective, dimensionally reduced, high-temperature field theory for generic models. The corresponding Mathematica package automatically performs the matching to next-to-leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-26 Andreas Ekstedt , Philipp Schicho , Tuomas V. I. Tenkanen

Peridynamics formulates the balance of linear momentum as an integro-differential equation, making it naturally suited for fracture modeling without special treatment of discontinuities. The bond-associated correspondence formulation…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Kai Partmann , Christian Wieners , Michael Ortiz , Kerstin Weinberg

We give a very simple method for finding the exact analytical solution for the problem of a particle undergoing diffusive motion on a flat potential in the presence of a gaussian sink function. The diffusion process is modelled by using one…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-09 Swati Mudra , Aniruddha Chakraborty

Recently, a new method, based on stochastic integration on the surfaces of steepest descent of the action, was introduced to tackle the sign problem in quantum field theories. We show how this method can be used in many body theories to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-03-25 Abhishek Mukherjee , Marco Cristoforetti

Dynamical quantum-cluster approaches, such as different cluster extensions of the dynamical mean-field theory (cluster DMFT) or the variational cluster approximation (VCA), combined with efficient cluster solvers, such as the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Gang Li , Werner Hanke , Alexei N. Rubtsov , Sebastian Bäse , Michael Potthoff

Finite detector resolution and limited acceptance require to apply unfolding methods in high energy physics experiments. Information on the detector resolution is usually given by a set of Monte Carlo events. Based on the experience with a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Volker Blobel

Few-body physics explores quantum systems of a small number of particles, bridging the gap between single-particle and many-body regimes. To provide an accessible tool for such studies, we present FewBodyToolkit.jl, a Julia package for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Lucas Happ

An inhomogeneous electric field is used to study the deflection of a supersonic beam of water molecules. The deflection profiles show strong broadening accompanied by a small net displacement towards higher electric fields. The profiles are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ramiro Moro , Jaap Bulthuis , Jonathon Heinrich , Vitaly V. Kresin