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The crystallization of a metastable melt is one of the most important non equilibrium phenomena in condensed matter physics, and hard sphere colloidal model systems have been used for several decades to investigate this process by…

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Zero- and two-dimensional crystal defects form in open statistical ensembles, such as the grand canonical, that are usually inaccessible with conventional simulation techniques. This longstanding challenge is overcome with a new Hamiltonian…

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Biased enhanced sampling methods utilizing collective variables (CVs) are powerful tools for sampling conformational ensembles. Due to high intrinsic dimensions, efficiently generating conformational ensembles for complex systems requires…

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Motivated by cosmological first-order phase transitions we examine the nucleation and evolution of vacuum bubbles in non-vacuum environments. Non-standard backgrounds can be relevant in the context of rapid tunneling processes on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-15 Aleksandar Rakic , Dennis Simon , Julian Adamek , Jens C. Niemeyer

We introduce a parallel Wang-Landau method based on the replica-exchange framework for Monte Carlo simulations. To demonstrate its advantages and general applicability for simulations of complex systems, we apply it to different spin models…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-05-27 Thomas Vogel , Ying Wai Li , Thomas Wüst , David P. Landau

Coupled cluster theory is a vital cornerstone of electronic structure theory and is being applied to ever-larger systems. Stochastic approaches to quantum chemistry have grown in importance and offer compelling advantages over traditional…

A nonperturbative correction to the thermal nucleation rate of critical bubbles in a first order phase transition is estimated. The correction originates from large-amplitude fluctuations which may be present before the transition occurs.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Marcelo Gleiser , Andrew F. Heckler

To minimise systematic errors in Monte Carlo simulations of charged particles, long range electrostatic interactions have to be calculated accurately and efficiently. Standard approaches, such as Ewald summation or the naive application of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 William Robert Saunders , James Grant , Eike Hermann Müller

Boltzmann sampling based on Metropolis algorithm has been extensively used for simulating a canonical ensemble. An estimate of a mechanical property, like energy, of an equilibrium system, can be made by averaging over a large number…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-04 K P N Murthy

We describe the study of thermodynamics of materials using replica-exchange Wang-Landau (REWL) sampling, a generic framework for massively parallel implementations of the Wang-Landau Monte Carlo method. To evaluate the performance and…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-18 Dilina Perera , Ying Wai Li , Markus Eisenbach , Thomas Vogel , David P. Landau

The present paper deals with the problem of improving the efficiency of large scale turbulent flow simulations. The high-fidelity methods for modelling turbulent flows become available for a wider range of applications thanks to the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-10 Boris Krasnopolsky

Generative diffusions are a powerful class of Monte Carlo samplers that leverage bridging Markov processes to approximate complex, high-dimensional distributions, such as those found in image processing and language models. Despite their…

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Turbulence enhances momentum transport in classical fluids, effectively increasing their viscosity. We investigate an analogous effect in a superfluid by measuring the damping of collective oscillations in an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate…

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Simulating percolation and critical phenomena of labelled species inside films composed of single-component linear homogeneous macromolecules using molecular Monte Carlo method in 3 dimensions, we study dependence of these conducting…

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We argue that one can associate a pseudo-time with sequences of configurations generated in the course of classical Monte Carlo simulations for a single-minimum bound state, if the sampling is optimal. Hereby the sampling rates can be,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-29 Yang He , Vassiliy Lubchenko

We describe a method to extract from experimental data the important dynamical modes in spatio-temporal patterns in a system driven out of thermodynamic equilibrium. Using a novel optical technique for controlling fluid flow, we create an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-05-03 Adam C. Perkins , Roman O. Grigoriev , Michael F. Schatz

We introduce a general Monte Carlo method based on Nested Sampling (NS), for sampling complex probability distributions and estimating the normalising constant. The method uses one or more particles, which explore a mixture of nested…

Computation · Statistics 2012-02-27 Brendon J. Brewer , Livia B. Pártay , Gábor Csányi

Vapor bubbles are formed in liquids by two mechanisms: evaporation (temperature above the boiling threshold) and cavitation (pressure below the vapor pressure). The liquid resists in these metastable (overheating and tensile, respectively)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-05-30 Mirko Gallo , Francesco Magaletti , Carlo Massimo Casciola

A first-order, Monte Carlo ensemble method has been recently introduced for solving parabolic equations with random coefficients in [26], which is a natural synthesis of the ensemble-based, Monte Carlo sampling algorithm and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-19 Yan Luo , Zhu Wang

An early-stage version of simulation package is developed for electronic structure calculation and dynamics of atom process in large-scale systems, particularly, nm-scale or 10nm-scale systems. We adopted the Extensible Markup Language…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-11-02 Hitoshi Nitta , Naoki Watanabe , Takeo Hoshi , Takeo Fujiwara