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Path integral-based simulation methodologies play a crucial role for the investigation of nuclear quantum effects by means of computer simulations. However, these techniques are significantly more demanding than corresponding classical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-17 Karsten Kreis , Kurt Kremer , Raffaello Potestio , Mark E. Tuckerman

Hybrid-VPIC is an extension of the open-source high-performance particle-in-cell (PIC) code VPIC incorporating hybrid kinetic ion/fluid electron solvers. This paper describes the models that are available in the code and gives an overview…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Ari Le , Adam Stanier , Lin Yin , Blake Wetherton , Brett Keenan , Brian Albright

For the self-consistent description of various plasma sources operated in the low-pressure (nonlocal, kinetic) regime, the Particle-In-Cell simulation approach, combined with the Monte Carlo treatment of collision processes (PIC/MCC), has…

We develop and implement two realizations of quantum graph neural networks (QGNN), applied to the task of particle interaction simulation. The first QGNN is a speculative quantum-classical hybrid learning model that relies on the ability to…

Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulation codes have wide applicability to first-principles modeling of multidimensional nonlinear plasma phenomena, including wake-field accelerators. This review addresses both finite difference and pseudo-spectral…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-08-07 Brendan B. Godfrey

A recent proof-of-principle study proposes an energy- and charge-conserving, nonlinearly implicit electrostatic particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithm in one dimension [Chen et al, J. Comput. Phys., 230 (2011) 7018]. The algorithm in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Guangye Chen , Luis Chacon , Christopher A Leibs , Dana A Knoll , William Taitano

A hybrid PIC-fluid model is proposed for three dimensional numerical simulation of laser-plasma interaction. Ions are treated kinetically, electrons as a ten-moment fluid, capturing ion-scale dynamics, pressure anisotropy, and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Andrey Sladkov

A simulation package employing a Particle in Cell (PIC) method is developed to study the high current beam transport and the dynamics of plasmas. This package includes subroutines those are suited for various planned projects at University…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-06-21 N. Joshi

The use of explicit particle-in-cell (PIC) method for relativistic plasma simulations is restricted by numerical heating and instabilities that may significantly constrain the choice of time and space steps. To partially eliminate these…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-12 Arkady Gonoskov

A strategy for the orchestration of hybrid classical-quantum workloads on supercomputers featuring quantum devices is proposed. The method makes use of heterogeneous job launches with Slurm to interleave classical and quantum computation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-11 Aniello Esposito , Sebastien Cabaniols , Jessica R. Jones , David Brayford

For simulating laser-plasma interactions, we developed a parallel, multi-dimensional, fully relativistically particle-in-cell (PIC) code, named YUNIC. The core algorithm is introduced, including field solver, particle pusher, field…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-02 Huai-Hang Song , Wei-Min Wang , Yu-Tong Li

Quantum algorithms for simulating large and complex molecular systems are still in their infancy, and surpassing state-of-the-art classical techniques remains an ever-receding goal post. A promising avenue of inquiry in the meanwhile is to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-07 Soohaeng Yoo Willow , D. ChangMo Yang , Chang Woo Myung

Breast cancer diagnosis through thermographic image analysis remains a critical challenge in medical AI, with classical deep learning approaches facing limitations in complex thermal pattern classification tasks. This paper presents a novel…

We demonstrate the feasibility of quantum computing for large-scale, realistic chemical systems through the development of a new interface using a quantum circuit simulator and CP2K, a highly efficient first-principles calculation software.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Tomoya Shiota , Klaas Gunst , Toshio Mori , Toru Shiozaki , Wataru Mizukami

The exploration of hybrid quantum-classical algorithms and programming models on noisy near-term quantum hardware has begun. As hybrid programs scale towards classical intractability, validation and benchmarking are critical to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Alexander McCaskey , Eugene Dumitrescu , Mengsu Chen , Dmitry Lyakh , Travis S. Humble

Cosmic-ray acceleration processes in astrophysical plasmas are often investigated with fully-kinetic or hybrid kinetic numerical simulations, which enable us to describe a detailed microphysics of particle energization mechanisms. Tracing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-12 Gabriel Torralba Paz , Artem Bohdan , Jacek Niemiec

We propose a class of Particle-In-Cell (PIC) methods for the Vlasov-Poisson system with a strong and inhomogeneous external magnetic field with fixed direction, where we focus on the motion of particles in the plane orthogonal to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-25 Francis Filbet , Luis Rodrigues

Outstanding advances in solid-state laser technology, employing the optical parametric chirped-pulse-amplification (OPCPA) technique, have led physicists to focus laser pulses to highly-relativistic intensities which led to novel schemes…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Szilárd Majorosi , Nasr Hafz , Zsolt Lécz

In this paper we present a new three dimensional (3D) full electromagnetic relativistic hybrid plasma code H-VLPL (hybrid virtual laser plasma laboratory). The full kinetic particle-in-cell (PIC) method is used to simulate low density hot…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-05-06 T. Tueckmantel , J. Liljo , A. Pukhov , M. Hochbruck

The particle-in-cell (PIC) method is a well-established and widely used kinetic plasma modelling approach that provides a hybrid Lagrangian-Eulerian approach to solve the plasma kinetic equation. Despite its power in capturing details of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-11-11 Maryam Reza , Farbod Faraji , Aaron Knoll