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The stability of a galaxy model is most easily assessed through N-body simulation. Particle-mesh codes have been widely used for this purpose, since they enable the largest numbers of particles to be employed. We show that the functional…

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Recent cosmological bounds on the sum of neutrino masses, M_nu = sum m_nu, are in tension with laboratory oscillation experiments, making cosmological tests of neutrino free-streaming imperative. In order to study the scale-dependent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Amol Upadhye , Yin Li

Lattice metamaterials enable lightweight, multifunctional structures, yet homogenization-based evaluation of their effective properties remains computationally expensive. Neural surrogates offer speed but often lack the accuracy and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Yu Xing , Yang Liu , Tianyang Xue , Lin Lu

We review the recent optimizations of gravitational $N$-body kernels for running them on graphics processing units (GPUs), on single hosts and massive parallel platforms. For each of the two main $N$-body techniques, direct summation and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-22 Simon Portegies Zwart , Jeroen Bédorf

Using a suite of $N$-body simulations we study the angular clustering of galaxies, halos, and dark matter in $\mathrm{\Lambda \text{CDM}}$ and Modified Gravity (MG) scenarios. We consider two general categories of such MG models, one is the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-22 Paweł Drozda , Wojciech A. Hellwing , Maciej Bilicki

We train convolutional neural networks to correct the output of fast and approximate N-body simulations at the field level. Our model, Neural Enhanced COLA --NECOLA--, takes as input a snapshot generated by the computationally efficient…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 Neerav Kaushal , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Elena Giusarma , Yin Li , Conner Hawry , Mauricio Reyes

With advances in scientific computing and mathematical modeling, complex scientific phenomena such as galaxy formations and rocket propulsion can now be reliably simulated. Such simulations can however be very time-intensive, requiring…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-29 Yi Ji , Simon Mak , Derek Soeder , J-F Paquet , Steffen A. Bass

Modified Gravity (MOG) has been used successfully to explain the rotation curves of galaxies, the motion of galaxy clusters, the Bullet Cluster, and cosmological observations without the use of dark matter or Einstein's cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-04 J. W. Moffat , V. T. Toth

We have developed a gravity solver based on combining the well developed Particle-Mesh (PM) method and TREE methods. It is designed for and has been implemented on parallel computer architectures. The new code can deal with tens of millions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Guohong Xu

We present a GPU-accelerated cosmological simulation code, PhotoNs-GPU, based on algorithm of Particle Mesh Fast Multipole Method (PM-FMM), and focus on the GPU utilization and optimization. A proper interpolated method for truncated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-28 Qiao Wang , Chen Meng

Symmetry is fundamental in the description and simulation of quantum systems. Leveraging symmetries in classical simulations of many-body quantum systems can results in significant overhead due to the exponentially growing size of some…

The spherical collapse scenario has great importance in cosmology since it captures several crucial aspects of structure formation. The presence of self-similar solutions in the Einstein-de Sitter (EdS) model greatly simplifies its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Han Zhang , Tobias Weinzierl , Holger Schulz , Baojiu Li

We simulate the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick (LMG) model using the Variational-Quantum-Eigensolver (VQE) algorithm on a neutral atom quantum computer. We test the ground-state energy of spin systems with up to 15 spins. Two different encoding…

We present a novel application of cosmological rescaling, or "remapping," to generate 21 cm intensity mapping mocks for different cosmologies. The remapping method allows for computationally efficient generation of N-body catalogs by…

Massive neutrinos and $f(R)$ modified gravity have degenerate observational signatures that can impact the interpretation of results in galaxy survey experiments, such as cosmological parameter estimations and gravity model tests. Because…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-22 Renate Mauland , Øystein Elgarøy , David Fonseca Mota , Hans Arnold Winther

A large fraction of cosmological information on dark energy and gravity is encoded in the nonlinear regime. Precision cosmology thus requires precision modeling of nonlinearities in general dark energy and modified gravity models. We modify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Weiguang Cui , Pengjie Zhang , Xiaohu Yang

In 'modified' gravity the observed acceleration of the universe is explained by changing the gravitational force law or the number of degrees of freedom in the gravitational sector. Both possibilities can be tested by measurements of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Clare Burrage , David Parkinson , David Seery

We present FlowPM, a Particle-Mesh (PM) cosmological N-body code implemented in Mesh-TensorFlow for GPU-accelerated, distributed, and differentiable simulations. We implement and validate the accuracy of a novel multi-grid scheme based on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-23 Chirag Modi , Francois Lanusse , Uros Seljak

The multivariate generalised Gaussian distribution (MGGD) is commonly used to model high-dimensional vectors with non-Gaussian radial behaviour, ranging from sharp-peaked to heavy-tailed profiles. However, because many classical…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-22 Mehmet Sıddık Çadırcı , Yener Ünal

State-of-the-art cosmological simulations on classical computers are limited by time, energy, and memory usage. Quantum computers can perform some calculations exponentially faster than classical computers, using exponentially less energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Philip Mocz , Aaron Szasz