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We propose an efficient method for Monte Carlo simulation of quantum lattice models. Unlike most other quantum Monte Carlo methods, a single run of the proposed method yields the free energy and the entropy with high precision for the whole…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Chiaki Yamaguchi , Naoki Kawashima , Yutaka Okabe

Current trends in parallel processors call for the design of efficient massively parallel algorithms for scientific computing. Parallel algorithms for Monte Carlo simulations of thermodynamic ensembles of particles have received little…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-08-26 Joshua A. Anderson , Eric Jankowski , Thomas L. Grubb , Michael Engel , Sharon C. Glotzer

We present a Monte Carlo method for the direct evaluation of the difference between the free energies of two crystal structures. The method is built on a lattice-switch transformation that maps a configuration of one structure onto a…

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

Two-component submonolayer growth on triangular lattice is qualitatively studied by kinetic Monte Carlo techniques. The hopping barrier governing surface diffusion of the atoms is estimated with an improved formula and using realistic pair…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-07-06 Robert Deak , Zoltan Neda , Peter B. Barna

We propose a modified power method for computing the subdominant eigenvalue $\lambda_2$ of a matrix or continuous operator. Here we focus on defining simple Monte Carlo methods for its application. The methods presented use random walkers…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-12-04 B. M. Rubenstein , J. E. Gubernatis , J. D. Doll

We present a cluster kinetic Monte-Carlo algorithm for active matter systems of self-propelled particles with special focus on steric interactions. The kinetic event-chain algorithm is based on the event-chain Monte-Carlo method and is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-07 Nico Schaffrath , Thevashangar Sathiyanesan , Tobias A. Kampmann , Jan Kierfeld

The Kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) method has become an important tool for examination of phenomena like surface diffusion and thin film growth because of its ability to carry out simulations for time scales that are relevant to experiments. But…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Talat S. Rahman , Abdelkader Kara , Altaf Karim , Oleg Trushin

A kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) method is used to study the structural properties and dynamics of a supercooled binary Lennard-Jones liquid around the glass transition temperature. This technique permits us to explore the potential energy…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Javier Hernandez-Rojas , David J. Wales

We introduce a kinetic Monte-Carlo model for self-propelled hard disks to capture with minimal ingredients the interplay between thermal fluctuations, excluded volume and self-propulsion in large assemblies of active particles. We analyze…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-07-16 Demian Levis , Ludovic Berthier

This chapter is devoted to the computation of equilibrium (thermodynamic) properties of quantum systems. In particular, we will be interested in the situation where the interaction between particles is so strong that it cannot be treated as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Alexei Filinov , Jens Böning , Michael Bonitz

Lattice kinetic equations incorporating the effects of external/internal force fields via a shift of the local fields in the local equilibria, are placed within the framework of continuum kinetic theory. The mathematical treatment reveals…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Sbragaglia , R. Benzi , L. Biferale , H. Chen , X. Shan , S. Succi

Metropolis Monte Carlo simulation is a powerful tool for studying the equilibrium properties of matter. In complex condensed-phase systems, however, it is difficult to design Monte Carlo moves with high acceptance probabilities that also…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-05-27 Jerome P. Nilmeier , Gavin E. Crooks , David D. L. Minh , John D. Chodera

The nested sampling algorithm has been shown to be a general method for calculating the pressure-temperature-composition phase diagrams of materials. While the previous implementation used single-particle Monte Carlo moves, these are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-17 Robert J. N. Baldock , Noam Bernstein , K. Michael Salerno , Lívia B. Pártay , Gábor Csányi

Kinetic equations model distributions of particles in position-velocity phase space. Often, one is interested in studying the long-time behavior of particles in high-collisional regimes in which an approximate (advection)-diffusion model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Emil Løvbak , Giovanni Samaey , Stefan Vandewalle

The self-organized Monte Carlo simulations of 2D Ising ferromagnet on the square lattice are performed. The essence of devised simulation method is the artificial dynamics consisting of the single-spin-flip algorithm of Metropolis…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Denis Horvath , Martin Gmitra

In plasma edge simulations, kinetic Monte Carlo (MC) is often used to simulate neutral particles and estimate source terms. For large-sized reactors, like ITER and DEMO, high particle collision rates lead to a substantial computational cost…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Zhirui Tang , Emil Løvbak , Julian Koellermeier , Giovanni Samaey

The standard kinetic Monte Carlo algorithm is an extremely efficient method to carry out serial simulations of dynamical processes such as thin-film growth. However, in some cases it is necessary to study systems over extended time and…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Yunsic Shim , Jacques G. Amar

The Kinetic-Diffusion Monte Carlo (KDMC) method is a powerful tool for simulating neutral particles in fusion reactors. It is a hybrid fluid-kinetic method that is significantly faster than pure kinetic methods at the cost of a small bias…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Thijs Steel , Vince Maes , Giovanni Samaey

The basic problem in equilibrium statistical mechanics is to compute phase space average, in which Monte Carlo method plays a very important role. We begin with a review of nonlocal algorithms for Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian-Sheng Wang

Lattice simulations are an important class of problems in crystalline solids, surface science, alloys, adsorption, absorption, separation, catalysis, to name a few. We describe a fast computational method for performing lattice…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-24 Suhail Haque , Abhijit Chatterjee