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Two first-principles simulation techniques, path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) and density functional molecular dynamics (DFT-MD), are applied to study hot, dense helium in the density-temperature range of 0.387 - 5.35 g/cc and 500 K -…

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The pseudofermion action of the Hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm for dynamical fermions is modified to directly incorporate Incomplete LU (ILU) factorisation. This reduces the stochastic noise and allows a larger molecular dynamics…

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We describe how Monte Carlo simulation within the grand canonical ensemble can be applied to the study of phase behaviour in polydisperse fluids. Attention is focused on the case of fixed polydispersity in which the form of the `parent'…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nigel B. Wilding , Peter Sollich

A parallelized hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) methodology is devised to quantify the microstructural evolution of polycrystalline material under elastic loading. The approach combines a time explicit material point method (MPM) for the mechanical…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-09-03 Liangzhe Zhang , Timothy Bartel , Mark T. Lusk

We extend the applicability range of fermionic path integral Monte Carlo simulations to heavier elements and lower temperatures by introducing various localized nodal surfaces. Hartree-Fock nodes yield the most accurate prediction for…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-27 Burkhard Militzer , Kevin P. Driver

We have applied the many-body ab-initio diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (DMC) method to study Zn and ZnO crystals under pressure, and the energetics of the oxygen vacancy, zinc interstitial and hydrogen impurities in ZnO. We show that DMC is…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-01 Juan A. Santana , Jaron T. Krogel , Jeongnim Kim , Paul R. C. Kent , Fernando A. Reboredo

Molecular crystals play a central role in a wide range of scientific fields, including pharmaceuticals and organic semiconductor devices. However, they are challenging systems to model accurately with computational approaches because of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-08 Flaviano Della Pia , Andrea Zen , Dario Alfè , Angelos Michaelides

We propose a hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) technique applicable to high-dimensional multivariate normal distributions that effectively samples along chaotic trajectories. The method is predicated on the freedom of choice of the HMC momentum…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-04-26 Nirag Kadakia

Generative diffusion models have recently emerged as a powerful strategy to perform stochastic sampling in Bayesian inverse problems, delivering remarkably accurate solutions for a wide range of challenging applications. However, diffusion…

Computation · Statistics 2025-05-15 Abdul-Lateef Haji-Ali , Marcelo Pereyra , Luke Shaw , Konstantinos Zygalakis

We derive an efficient method for the insertion of structured particles in grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations of adsorption in very confining geometries. We extend this method to path integral simulations and use it to calculate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-04-09 G. Garberoglio

The Kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) method has become an important tool for examination of phenomena like surface diffusion and thin film growth because of its ability to carry out simulations for time scales that are relevant to experiments. But…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Talat S. Rahman , Abdelkader Kara , Altaf Karim , Oleg Trushin

We present a continuous-time Monte Carlo method for quantum impurity models, which combines a weak-coupling expansion with an auxiliary-field decomposition. The method is considerably more efficient than Hirsch-Fye and free of time…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-06-02 Emanuel Gull , Philipp Werner , Olivier Parcollet , Matthias Troyer

We introduce a Monte-Carlo algorithm for the simulation of charged particles moving in the continuum. Electrostatic interactions are not instantaneous as in conventional approaches, but are mediated by a constrained, diffusing electric…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Joerg Rottler , A. C. Maggs

Monte Carlo techniques play a central role in statistical mechanics approaches for connecting macroscopic thermodynamic and kinetic properties to the electronic structure of a material. This paper describes the implementation of Monte Carlo…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-22 Brian Puchala , John C. Thomas , Anton Van der Ven

We use discontinuous molecular dynamics and grand-canonical transition-matrix Monte Carlo simulations to explore how confinement between parallel hard walls modifies the relationships between packing fraction, self-diffusivity, partial…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeetain Mittal , Vincent K. Shen , Jeffrey R. Errington , Thomas M. Truskett

To synthesize diffusion MR measurements from Monte-Carlo simulation using tissue models with sizes comparable to those of scan voxels. Larger regions enable restricting structures to be modeled in greater detail and improve accuracy and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-01-16 Matt G Hall , Gemma Nedjati-Gilani , Daniel C Alexander

The simple method for simulation of ``thermal'' hadron spectra in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions including longitudinal, transverse and elliptic flow is developed. The model is realized as fast Monte-Carlo event generator.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 I. P. Lokhtin , A. M. Snigirev

Based on accurate representation of the He+-He angular differential scattering cross sections consisting of both elastic and charge exchange collisions, we performed detailed numerical simulations of the ion velocity distribution functions…

Monte Carlo simulation was carried out to understand the influence of morphological inhomogeneity on carrier diffusion in organic thin films. The morphological inhomogeneity was considered in the simulation by incorporating the regions of…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-28 S. Raj Mohan , Manoranjan P. Singh , M. P. Joshi , L. M. Kukreja

Extracting the kinetic properties of a system whose dynamics depend on the pH of the environment with which it exchanges energy and atoms requires sampling the Grand Canonical Ensemble. As an alternative, we present a novel strategy that…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 Luca Donati , Marcus Weber