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This paper discusses a novel fully implicit formulation for a 1D electrostatic particle-in-cell (PIC) plasma simulation approach. Unlike earlier implicit electrostatic PIC approaches (which are based on a linearized Vlasov-Poisson…

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We study the geometric particle-in-cell methods for an electrostatic hybrid plasma model. In this model, ions are described by the fully kinetic equations, electron density is determined by the Boltzmann relation, and space-charge effects…

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The electrostatic potential in certain types of boundary value problems can be found by solving Laplace's Equation (LE). To develop students' ability for solving problems that can be solved effectively using Laplace's equation in an…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-10-15 Jaya Shivangani Kashyap , Robert Devaty , Chandralekha Singh

Large-scale atomistic computer simulations of materials heavily rely on interatomic potentials predicting the potential energy and Newtonian forces on atoms. Traditional interatomic potentials are based on physical intuition but contain few…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-11 G. P. Purja Pun , R. Batra , R. Ramprasad , Y. Mishin

The accurate description of electrostatic interactions remains a challenging problem for fitted potential-energy functions. The commonly used fixed partial-charge approximation fails to reproduce the electrostatic potential at short range…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 Moritz Thürlemann , Lennard Böselt , Sereina Riniker

Fluid-solid interaction (FSI) problems are fundamental in many scientific and engineering applications, yet effectively capturing the highly nonlinear two-way interactions remains a significant challenge. Most existing deep learning methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Shilong Tao , Zhe Feng , Shaohan Chen , Weichen Zhang , Zhanxing Zhu , Yunhuai Liu

We introduce a new electrostatic particle-in-cell algorithm capable of using large timesteps compared to particle gyro-period under a uniform external magnetic field. The algorithm extends earlier electrostatic fully implicit PIC…

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We develop an efficient Ewald method of molecular dynamics simulation for calculating the electrostatic interactions among charged and polar particles between parallel metallic plates, where we may apply an electric field with an arbitrary…

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Solving physics problems for which we know the equations, boundary conditions and symmetries can be done by deep learning. The constraints can be either imposed as terms in a loss function or used to formulate a neural ansatz. In the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-05-21 Zhe Wang , Claude Guet

Although electrostatics can be incorporated into machine-learned interatomic potentials, existing approaches are computationally very demanding, limiting large-scale, long-time simulations of electrostatics-driven phenomena such as…

In computational biochemistry and biophysics, understanding the role of electrostatic interactions is crucial for elucidating the structure, dynamics, and function of biomolecules. The Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) equation is a foundational tool…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-08 Yongxian Wu , Qiang Zhu , Ray Luo

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have become widely used tools in atomistic simulations. For much of the history of this field, the most commonly employed architectures were based on short-ranged atomic energy contributions,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 William J. Baldwin , Ilyes Batatia , Martin Vondrák , Johannes T. Margraf , Gábor Csányi

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

We develop a computational method for modeling electrostatic interactions of arbitrarily-shaped, polarizable objects on colloidal length scales, including colloids/nanoparticles, polymers, and surfactants, dispersed in explicit ion…

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Arranging many modules within a bounded domain without overlap, central to the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) of very large-scale integrated (VLSI) circuits, represents a broad class of discrete geometric optimization problems with…

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Neural wave functions accomplished unprecedented accuracies in approximating the ground state of many-electron systems, though at a high computational cost. Recent works proposed amortizing the cost by learning generalized wave functions…

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The description of a conducting medium in thermal equilibrium, such as an electrolyte solution or a plasma, involves nonlinear electrostatics, a subject rarely discussed in the standard electricity and magnetism textbooks. We consider in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 C. G. Gray , P. J. Stiles

Simulations with an explicit description of intermolecular forces using electronic structure methods are still not feasible for many systems of interest. As a result, empirical methods such as force fields (FF) have become an established…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-06-02 Moritz Thürlemann , Lennard Böselt , Sereina Riniker

A new and efficient neural-network and finite-difference hybrid method is developed for solving Poisson equation in a regular domain with jump discontinuities on embedded irregular interfaces. Since the solution has low regularity across…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Wei-Fan Hu , Te-Sheng Lin , Yu-Hau Tseng , Ming-Chih Lai

In this paper we propose a nonlinear elasticity model of macromolecular conformational change (deformation) induced by electrostatic forces generated by an implicit solvation model. The Poisson-Boltzmann equation for the electrostatic…

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