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We present an algorithm for rigid body diffusion Monte Carlo with importance sampling, which is based on a rigorous short-time expansion of the Green's function for rotational motion in three dimensions. We show that this short-time…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexandra Viel , Mehul V. Patel , Parhat Niyaz , K. Birgitta Whaley

In recent years the Swap Monte Carlo algorithm has led to remarkable progress in equilibrating supercooled model liquids at low temperatures. Applications have so far been limited to systems composed of spherical particles, however, whereas…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-05 Till Böhmer , Jeppe C. Dyre , Lorenzo Costigliola

We describe a Monte Carlo procedure which allows sampling of the disjoint configuration spaces associated with crystalline and fluid phases, within a single simulation. The method utilises biased sampling techniques to enhance the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. B. Wilding , A. D. Bruce

This paper illustrates a generic method for multi-dimensional reweighting of $O(1)$ GeV neutrino interaction Monte Carlo samples. The reweighting is based on a Boosted Decision Tree algorithm trained on high-dimensional space in detector…

In Monte-Carlo methods the Markov processes used to sample a given target distribution usually satisfy detailed balance, i.e. they are time-reversible. However, relatively recent results have demonstrated that appropriate reversible and…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-29 Luc Rey-Bellet , Konstantinos Spiliopoulos

We propose the Positive Resampler to solve the problem associated with event samples from state-of-the-art predictions for scattering processes at hadron colliders typically involving a sizeable number of events contributing with negative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-16 Jeppe R. Andersen , Christian Gutschow , Andreas Maier , Stefan Prestel

A recently developed self-healing diffusion Monte Carlo algorithm [PRB 79, 195117] is extended to the calculation of excited states. The formalism is based on an excited-state fixed-node approximation and the mixed estimator of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Fernando A. Reboredo

Based on the central limit theorem, we discuss the problem of evaluation of the statistical error of Monte Carlo calculations using a time discretized diffusion process. We present a robust and practical method to determine the effective…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 François Delyon , Bernard Bernu , Markus Holzmann

We develop a new Monte Carlo method that solves hyperbolic transport equations with stiff terms, characterized by a (small) scaling parameter. In particular, we focus on systems which lead to a reduced problem of parabolic type in the limit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-01 G. Dimarco , L. Pareschi , G. Samaey

Equality-constrained models naturally arise in problems in which measurements are taken at different levels of resolution. The challenge in this setting is that the models usually induce a joint distribution which is intractable. Resorting…

Computation · Statistics 2025-04-28 Shenggang Hu , Hongsheng Dai , Fanlin Meng , Louis Aslett , Murray Pollock , Gareth O. Roberts

We propose a multilevel Monte Carlo method for a particle-based asymptotic-preserving scheme for kinetic equations. Kinetic equations model transport and collision of particles in a position-velocity phase-space. With a diffusive scaling,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-21 Emil Løvbak , Giovanni Samaey , Stefan Vandewalle

We investigate an approximate sampling scheme that can significantly reduce the cost scaling of variational Monte Carlo when it is employed to predict the energy differences associated with local chemical changes. Inspired by side-chaining…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Sonja Bumann , Eric Neuscamman

A diffusion Monte Carlo algorithm is introduced that can determine the correct nodal structure of the wave function of a few-fermion system and its ground-state energy without an uncontrolled bias. This is achieved by confining signed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Alexander A. Kunitsa , So Hirata

Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) is being recognized as a higher-accuracy, albeit more computationally expensive, alternative to Density Functional Theory (DFT) for energy predictions of catalytic systems. A major computational bottleneck in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-12 Gopal R. Iyer , Brenda M. Rubenstein

We present a novel Monte Carlo algorithm which enhances equilibrization of low-temperature simulations and allows sampling of configurations over a large range of energies. The method is based on a non-Boltzmann probability weight factor…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Ulrich H. E. Hansmann , Yuko Okamoto

We present unbiased, finite--variance estimators of energy derivatives for real--space diffusion Monte Carlo calculations within the fixed--node approximation. The derivative $d_\lambda E$ is fully consistent with the dependence…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-20 Jesse van Rhijn , Claudia Filippi , Stefania De Palo , Saverio Moroni

We present a new efficient method for Monte Carlo simulations of diffusion-reaction processes. First introduced by us in [Phys. Rev. Lett., 97:230602, 2006], the new algorithm skips the traditional small diffusion hops and propagates the…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 T. Oppelstrup , V. V. Bulatov , A. Donev , M. H. Kalos , G. H. Gilmer , B. Sadigh

Importance sampling is a Monte Carlo method which designs estimators of expectations under a target distribution using weighted samples from a proposal distribution. When the target distribution is complex, such as multimodal distributions…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-04 Anas Cherradi , Yazid Janati , Alain Durmus , Sylvain Le Corff , Yohan Petetin , Julien Stoehr

We discuss the efficiency of Monte Carlo methods in solving continuum radiative transfer problems. The sampling of the radiation field and convergence of dust temperature calculations in the case of optically thick clouds are both studied.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Juvela

In molecular simulations, efficient methods for investigating equilibration and slow relaxation in dense systems are crucial yet challenging. This study focuses on the diffusional characteristics of monodisperse hard disk systems at…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-21 Daigo Mugita , Masaharu Isobe