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This paper introduces a Monte Carlo method for maximum likelihood inference in the context of discretely observed diffusion processes. The method gives unbiased and a.s.\@ continuous estimators of the likelihood function for a family of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-03-03 Alexandros Beskos , Omiros Papaspiliopoulos , Gareth Roberts

Recently, a diffusion Monte Carlo algorithm was applied to the study of spin dependent interactions in condensed matter. Following some of the ideas presented therein, and applied to a Hamiltonian containing a Rashba-like interaction, a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-27 Alberto Ambrosetti , Pier Luigi Silvestrelli , Flavio Toigo , Lubos Mitas , Francesco Pederiva

This paper develops and analyzes an efficient numerical method for solving elliptic partial differential equations, where the diffusion coefficients are random perturbations of deterministic diffusion coefficients. The method is based upon…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-30 X. Feng , J. Lin. , C. Lorton

Transport and acceleration of charged particles in turbulent media is a topic of great interest in space physics and interstellar astrophysics. These processes are dominated by the scattering of particles off magnetic irregularities. The…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 A. Ivascenko , S. Lange , F. Spanier , R. Vainio

We give accurate and ergodic numerical methods for semilinear, second-order Langevin stochastic partial differential equations (SPDE). As a byproduct, we also give good geometric numerical methods for their infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-19 Nawaf Bou-Rabee

We present a recently developed projector quantum Monte Carlo method for calculations of electronic structure in systems with spin-orbit interactions. The method solves for many-body eigenstates in the presence of spin-orbit using the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Cody A. Melton , M. Chandler Bennett , Lubos Mitas

Analysis of signal fluctuations of a locally fixed probe, caused by molecules diffusing under the probe, can be used to determine diffusion coefficients. Theoretical treatments so far have been limited to point-like particles or to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Susanne Hahne , Philipp Maass

Using the Coulomb corrections to some important parameters of a revised Moliere multiple scattering theory, we have obtained analytically and numerically the Coulomb corrections to the quantities of the Migdal theory of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-11 Hrach Torosyan , Olga Voskresenskaya

We introduce a flexible method to simultaneously infer both the drift and volatility functions of a discretely observed scalar diffusion. We introduce spline bases to represent these functions and develop a Markov chain Monte Carlo…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-02 Paul A. Jenkins , Murray Pollock , Gareth O. Roberts

We study the effective diffusion constant of a Brownian particle linearly coupled to a thermally fluctuating scalar field. We use a path integral method to compute the effective diffusion coefficient perturbatively to lowest order in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-30 V. Démery , D. S. Dean

Along with the recent advances in scalable Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods, sampling techniques that are based on Langevin diffusions have started receiving increasing attention. These so called Langevin Monte Carlo (LMC) methods are based…

Computation · Statistics 2017-06-14 Umut Şimşekli

The Diffusion Monte Carlo method with constant number of walkers, also called Stochastic Reconfiguration as well as Sequential Monte Carlo, is a widely used Monte Carlo methodology for computing the ground-state energy and wave function of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Michel Caffarel , Pierre del Moral , Luc de Montella

Estimating the 3DoF rotation from a single RGB image is an important yet challenging problem. Probabilistic rotation regression has raised more and more attention with the benefit of expressing uncertainty information along with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Yingda Yin , Yang Wang , He Wang , Baoquan Chen

In this paper, we propose and analyze an accurate numerical approach to simulate the Helmholtz problem in a bounded region with a random refractive index, where the random refractive index is denoted using an infinite series parameterized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Panchi Li , Zhiwen Zhang

We show that the Euclidean and Lorentzian EPRL vertex amplitudes of covariant Loop Quantum Gravity are related through a ``Wick rotation'' of the real Immirzi parameter to purely imaginary values. Our result follows from the simultaneous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-27 Pietro Dona , Francesco Gozzini , Alessandro Nicotra

The diffusion Monte Carlo technique is used to calculate and analyze the excitation spectrum of $^3$He atoms bound to a cluster of $^4$He atoms, by using a previously determined optimum filling of single-fermion orbits with well defined…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Fantoni , R. Guardiola , J. Navarro , A. Zuker

We provide convergence guarantees in Wasserstein distance for a variety of variance-reduction methods: SAGA Langevin diffusion, SVRG Langevin diffusion and control-variate underdamped Langevin diffusion. We analyze these methods under a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-16 Niladri S. Chatterji , Nicolas Flammarion , Yi-An Ma , Peter L. Bartlett , Michael I. Jordan

A solution to the sign problem is the so-called "Lefschetz thimble approach" where the domain of integration for field variables in the path integral is deformed from the real axis to a sub-manifold in the complex space. For properly chosen…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-06-01 Andrei Alexandru , Gokce Basar , Paulo F. Bedaque , Gregory W. Ridgway , Neill C. Warrington

We study weak localization effects in the ballistic regime as induced by man-made scatterers. Specular reflection of the electrons off these scatterers results into backscattered trajectories which interfere with their time-reversed path…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. L. Janssens , F. M. Peeters

This note develops a Bernstein estimator for lower-tail Spearman's rho and establishes its strong consistency and asymptotic normality under mild regularity conditions. Smoothing the empirical copula yields a strictly smaller mean squared…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Frédéric Ouimet , Selim Orhun Susam