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The quantum Monte Carlo methods represent a powerful and broadly applicable computational tool for finding very accurate solutions of the stationary Schroedinger equation for atoms, molecules, solids and a variety of model systems. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-01-28 Jindrich Kolorenc , Lubos Mitas

Preliminary low-thrust spacecraft mission design is a global search problem characterized by a complex solution landscape, multiple objectives, and numerous local minima. During this phase, mission parameters are often not yet fully…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Jannik Graebner , Ryne Beeson

This work demonstrates algorithms to accurately compute solutions to thermal radiation transport problems using a reduced floating-point precision implementation of the Implicit Monte Carlo method. Several techniques falling into the…

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In this paper, we propose a new randomized method for numerical integration on a compact complex manifold with respect to a continuous volume form. Taking for quadrature nodes a suitable determinantal point process, we build an unbiased…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2024-05-16 Thibaut Lemoine , Rémi Bardenet

A quantum interatomic scattering is implemented in the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method applied to transport phenomena in rarefied gases. In contrast to the traditional DSMC method based on the classical scattering, the proposed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Felix Sharipov

This note proposes rapidly convergent computational formulae for evaluating scattering kernels from radiative transfer theory. The approach used here does not rely on Legendre expansions, but rather uses exponentially convergent numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Hans Engler

We present a new algorithm for radiative transfer-based on a statistical Monte Carlo approach-that does not suffer from teleportation effects, on the one hand, and yields smooth results, on the other hand. Implicit Monte Carlo (IMC)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-12 Elad Steinberg , Shay I. Heizler

Aims. Numerical test-particle simulations are a reliable and frequently used tool to test analytical transport theories and to predict mean-free paths. The comparison between solutions of the diffusion equation and the particle flux is used…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 R. C. Tautz , J. Bolte , A. Shalchi

The multiple scattering of an ultrashort laser pulse by a turbid dispersive medium (namely a cloud of bubbles in water) is investigated by means of Monte Carlo simulations. The theory of Gouesbet and Gr\'ehan [Part. Part. Syst. Charact. 17…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Geoffroy Chaussonnet , Loïc Mees , Miloš Šormaz , Patrick Jenny , Philippe M. Bardet

Monte-Carlo (MC) methods, based on random updates and the trial-and-error principle, are well suited to retrieve particle size distributions from small-angle scattering patterns of dilute solutions of scatterers. The size sensitivity of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-03-19 Brian Richard Pauw , Jan-Skov Pedersen , Samuel Tardif , Masaki Takata , Bo Brummersted Iversen

The efficient evaluation of high-dimensional integrals is of importance in both theoretical and practical fields of science, such as data science, statistical physics, and machine learning. However, exact computation methods suffer from the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-15 Radislav Vaisman , Robert Salomone , Dirk P. Kroese

We offer a simple method Monte Carlo for computation of Volterra's and spherical type multiple integrals with weak (integrable) singularities. An elimination of infinity of variance is achieved by incorporating singularities in the density,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-27 E. Ostrovsky , L. Sirota

On the base of the diffusion Monte-Carlo method we develop the method allowing to simulate the quantum systems with complex wave function. The method is exact and there are no approximations on the simulations of the module and the phase of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Abdullaev , M. Musakhanov , A. Nakamura

We propose and investigate a new multi-level Monte Carlo scheme for numerical solutions of the kinetic Boltzmann equation for neutral species in edge plasmas. In particular, this method explicitly exploits a key structural property of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Gregory J. Parker , Maxim V. Umansky , Benjamin D. Dudson

Monte Carlo integration is a commonly used technique to compute intractable integrals and is typically thought to perform poorly for very high-dimensional integrals. To show that this is not always the case, we examine Monte Carlo…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-05-26 Yanbo Tang

We describe a numerical model for the interaction of light with large raindrops using realistic nonspherical drop shapes. We apply geometrical optics and a Monte Carlo technique to perform ray traces through the drops. We solve the problem…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Oliver N. Ross , Stuart G. Bradley

Monte Carlo methods are widely used in particle physics to integrate and sample probability distributions (differential cross sections or decay rates) on multi-dimensional phase spaces. We present a Neural Network (NN) algorithm optimized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-21 Matthew D. Klimek , Maxim Perelstein

We propose a hierarchy of multi-level kinetic Monte Carlo methods for sampling high-dimensional, stochastic lattice particle dynamics with complex interactions. The method is based on the efficient coupling of different spatial resolution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-06 Evangelia Kalligiannaki , Markos A. Katsoulakis , Petr Plechac

The computational cost of a Monte Carlo algorithm can only be meaningfully discussed when taking into account the magnitude of the resulting statistical error. Aiming for a fixed error per particle, we study the scaling behavior of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-02-11 Norbert Nemec

The shell-model Monte Carlo (SMMC) technique transforms the traditional nuclear shell-model problem into a path-integral over auxiliary fields. We describe below the method and its applications to four physics issues: calculations of sdpf-…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 D. J. Dean , J. A. White