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We present an efficient and accurate energy-conserving implicit particle-in-cell~(PIC) algorithm for the electrostatic Vlasov system, with particular emphasis on its high robustness for simulating complex plasma systems with multiple…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-11-21 Zhuoning Li , Zhenli Xu , Zhiguo Yang

A new approach to the kinetic simulation of plasmas in complex geometries, based on the Particle-in- Cell (PIC) simulation method, is explored. In the two dimensional (2d) electrostatic version of our method, called the Arbitrary…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 C. A. Fichtl , J. M. Finn , K. L. Cartwright

A general formalism for the treatment of density fluctuations in Coulomb plasmas is presented and applied to the treatment of temperature relaxation in multi-component quantum plasmas when the separate components (electrons and ions) relax…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-10-06 Basil Crowley

We consider the initial-boundary value problem for a quasilinear time-fractional diffusion equation, and develop a fully discrete solver combining the parareal algorithm in time with a L1 finite-difference approximation of the Caputo…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Josefa Caballero , Łukasz Płociniczak , Kishin Sadarangani

We present a generalized, data-driven collisional operator for one-component plasmas, learned from molecular dynamics simulations, to extend the collisional kinetic model beyond the weakly coupled regime. The proposed operator features an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Yue Zhao , Huan Lei

Traditional elastic wavefield separation methods, while accurate, often demand substantial computational resources, especially for large geological models or 3D scenarios. Purely data-driven neural network approaches can be more efficient,…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-07-01 Shijun Cheng , Xinru Mu , Tariq Alkhalifah

Explicit electromagnetic Particle-In-Cell (PIC) codes are typically limited by the Courant- Friedrichs-Lewy (CFL) condition, which implies that the timestep multiplied by the speed of light must be smaller than the smallest cell size. In…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Olga Shapoval , Remi Lehe , Maxence Thévenet , Edoardo Zoni , Yinjian Zhao , Jean-Luc Vay

For inhomogeneous systems with interfaces, the inclusion of long-range dispersion interactions is necessary to achieve consistency between molecular simulation calculations and experimental results. For accurate and efficient incorporation…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-04-25 Rolf E. Isele-Holder , Wayne Mitchell , Ahmed E. Ismail

Astrophysical shocks are often studied in the high Mach number limit but weakly compressive fast shocks can occur in magnetic reconnection outflows and are considered to be a site of particle energization in solar flares. Here we study the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-26 Jaehong Park , Jared C. Workman , Eric G. Blackman , Chuang Ren , Robert Siller

In this work, we derive particle schemes, based on micro-macro decomposition, for linear kinetic equations in the diffusion limit. Due to the particle approximation of the micro part, a splitting between the transport and the collision part…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-19 Anaïs Crestetto , Nicolas Crouseilles , Mohammed Lemou

The movement of organisms and cells can be governed by occasional long distance runs, according to an approximate L\'evy walk. For T cells migrating through chronically-infected brain tissue, runs are further interrupted by long pauses, and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-03-06 Gissell Estrada-Rodriguez , Heiko Gimperlein , Kevin J. Painter , Jakub Stocek

The purpose of this paper is to propose a time-step-robust cell-to-cell integration of particle trajectories in 3-D unstructured meshes in particle/mesh Lagrangian stochastic methods. The main idea is to dynamically update the mean fields…

Computation · Statistics 2023-04-19 Guilhem Balvet , Jean-Pierre Minier , Christophe Henry , Yelva Roustan , Martin Ferrand

We use the results of ultra-precise cold-atom-recoil experiments to constrain the form of the energy-momentum dispersion relation, a structure that is expected to be modified in several quantum-gravity approaches. Our strategy of analysis…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Giovanni Amelino-Camelia , Claus Laemmerzahl , Flavio Mercati , Guglielmo M. Tino

Basic principles of particle-in-cell (PIC ) codes with the main application for plasma-based acceleration are discussed. The ab initio full electromagnetic relativistic PIC codes provide the most reliable description of plasmas. Their…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-10-06 Alexander Pukhov

We present a new approach to calculate the particle distribution function about relativistic shocks including synchrotron losses using the method of lines with an explicit finite difference scheme. A steady, continuous, one dimensional…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Sean Delaney , Paul Dempsey , Peter Duffy , Turlough P. Downes

This paper presents an efficient and concise double fast algorithm to solve high dimensional time-space fractional diffusion problems with spectral fractional Laplacian. We first establish semi-discrete scheme of time-space fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Yi Yang , Jin Huang

In simulations of partial differential equations using particle-in-cell (PIC) methods, it is often advantageous to resample the particle distribution function to increase simulation accuracy, reduce compute cost, and/or avoid numerical…

Generative diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in producing high-quality images. However, these models typically operate in continuous intensity spaces, diffusing independently across pixels and color channels. As a result,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Javier E. Santos , Agnese Marcato , Roman Colman , Nicholas Lubbers , Yen Ting Lin

The numerical instability observed in the Electromagnetic-Particle-in-cell (EM-PIC) simulations with a plasma drifting with relativistic velocities is studied using both theory and computer simulations. We derive the numerical dispersion…

We investigate the quantum dynamics of fermionic particles interacting with a laser field in a gaseous medium, in the regime of inelastic diffraction scattering on the phase lattice of a slowed travelling wave, below the critical field of…

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