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The design of low-density parity-check (LDPC) code ensembles optimized for a finite number of decoder iterations is investigated. Our approach employs EXIT chart analysis and differential evolution to design such ensembles for the binary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ian P. Mulholland , Enrico Paolini , Mark F. Flanagan

This paper introduces a computationally efficient method that converges globally to B-stationary points of mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints (MPECs). B-stationarity is necessary for optimality and means that no feasible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Armin Nurkanović , Sven Leyffer

Conformal energy minimization is an efficient approach to compute conformal parameterization. In this paper, we develop a stable algorithm to compute conformal parameterization of simply connected open surface, termed Stable Discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Zhong-Heng Tan , Zhenyue Zhang

Spatially Coupled Low-Density Parity-Check (SC-LDPC) codes offer excellent decoding performance and can be elegantly decoded with a Windowed Decoder (WD). We determine an efficient WD configuration with low control overhead. For fair…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Janik Frenzel , Stefan Müller-Weinfurtner , Johannes Huber , Ralf Müller

The simulation of fluid flow problems, specifically incompressible flows governed by the Navier-Stokes equations (NSE), holds fundamental significance in a range of scientific and engineering applications. Traditional numerical methods…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Abdullah Abukhwejah , Pankaj Jagad , Ravi Samtaney , Peter Schmid

Implicit particle-in-cell codes offer advantages over their explicit counterparts in that they suffer weaker stability constraints on the need to resolve the higher frequency modes of the system. This feature may prove particularly valuable…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Mathieu Drouin , Laurent Gremillet , Jean-Claude Adam , Anne Héron

Quasisymmetry (QS), a hidden symmetry of the magnetic field strength, is known to support nested flux surfaces and provide superior particle confinement in stellarators. In this work, we study the ideal MHD equilibrium and stability of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 W. Sengupta , N. Nikulsin , R. Gaur , A. Bhattacharjee

We describe the construction of stepped-pressure equilibria as extrema of a multi-region, relaxed magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) energy functional that combines elements of ideal MHD and Taylor relaxation, and which we call MRXMHD. The model is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 S. R. Hudson , R. L. Dewar , G. Dennis , M. J. Hole , M. McGann , G. von Nessi , S. Lazerson

In stellarators, achieving effective divertor configurations is challenging due to the three-dimensional nature of the magnetic fields, which often leads to chaotic field lines and fuzzy separatrices. This work presents a novel approach to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Todd Elder , Matt Landremann , Christoper B. Smiet , Robert Davies

We discuss a detailed weak scaling analysis of GEM, a 3D MPI-parallelised gyrofluid code used in theoretical plasma physics at the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics, IPP at Garching b. M\"unchen, Germany. Within a PRACE Preparatory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-02-13 Bruce D. Scott , Volker Weinberg , Olivier Hoenen , Anupam Karmakar , Luis Fazendeiro

Perfect Space-Time Codes (STC) are optimal codes in their original construction for Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) systems. Based on Cyclic Division Algebras (CDA), they are full-rate, full-diversity codes, have Non-Vanishing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-03 Mireille Sarkiss , Ghaya Rekaya-Ben Othman , Mohamed Oussama Damen , Jean-Claude Belfiore

Hyperspectral images (HSIs) play a crucial role in remote sensing but are often degraded by complex noise patterns. Ensuring the physical property of the denoised HSIs is vital for robust HSI denoising, giving the rise of deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Jin Ye , Jingran Wang , Fengchao Xiong , Jingzhou Chen , Yuntao Qian

The JOREK extended magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) code is a widely used simulation code for studying the non-linear dynamics of large-scale instabilities in divertor tokamak plasmas. Due to the large scale-separation intrinsic to these…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 I Holod , M Hoelzl , P S Verma , GTA Huijsmans , R Nies , JOREK Team

This work establishes a rigorous connection between stability properties of discrete-time algorithms (DTAs) and corresponding continuous-time dynamical systems derived through $ O(s^r) $-resolution ordinary differential equations (ODEs). We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Amir Ali Farzin , Yuen-Man Pun , Philipp Braun , Iman Shames

Quantum data is susceptible to decoherence induced by the environment and to errors in the hardware processing it. A future fault-tolerant quantum computer will use quantum error correction (QEC) to actively protect against both. In the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-30 D. Ristè , S. Poletto , M. -Z. Huang , A. Bruno , V. Vesterinen , O. -P. Saira , L. DiCarlo

Model discrepancy, defined as the difference between model predictions and reality, is ubiquitous in computational models for physical systems. It is common to derive partial differential equations (PDEs) from first principles physics, but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Joseph Hart , Bart van Bloemen Waanders

We introduce two improvements in the numerical scheme to simulate collision and slow shearing of irregular particles. First, we propose an alternative approach based on simple relations to compute the frictional contact forces. The approach…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-15 Andres A. Pena , Pedro G. Lind , Hans J. Herrmann

Quantum error correction is indispensable to achieving reliable quantum computation. When quantum information is encoded redundantly, a larger Hilbert space is constructed using multiple physical qubits, and the computation is performed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Hoshitaro Ohnishi , Hideo Mukai

First-order systems of hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs) occur ubiquitously throughout computational physics, commonly used in simulations of fluid turbulence, shock waves, electromagnetic interactions, and even general…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Jonathan Gorard , Ammar Hakim

Finding Minimum Energy Configurations (MECs) is essential in fields such as physics, chemistry, and materials science, as they represent the most stable states of the systems. In particular, identifying such MECs in multi-component alloys…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-27 Md Rajib Khan Musa , Yichen Qian , Jie Peng , David Cereceda