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Many-particle continuous-time quantum walks (CTQWs) represent a resource for several tasks in quantum technology, including quantum search algorithms and universal quantum computation. In order to design and implement CTQWs in a realistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-02 Enrico Piccinini , Claudia Benedetti , Ilaria Siloi , Matteo G. A. Paris , Paolo Bordone

A High-performance Atmospheric Radiation Package (HARP) is developed for studying multiple-scattering planetary atmospheres. HARP is an open-source program written in C++ that utilizes high-level data structure and parallel-computing…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-08 Cheng Li , Tianhao Le , Xi Zhang , Yuk L. Yung

Neuromorphic computing using biologically inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) is a promising solution to meet Energy-Throughput (ET) efficiency needed for edge computing devices. Neuromorphic hardware architectures that emulate SNNs in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Mayank Senapati , Manil Dev Gomony , Sherif Eissa , Charlotte Frenkel , Henk Corporaal

Radiative transfer calculations are essential for modeling planetary atmospheres. However, standard methods are computationally demanding and impose accuracy-speed trade-offs. High computational costs force numerical simplifications in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Isaac Malsky , Tiffany Kataria , Natasha E. Batalha , Matthew Graham

We present Cholla (Computational Hydrodynamics On ParaLLel Architectures), a new three-dimensional hydrodynamics code that harnesses the power of graphics processing units (GPUs) to accelerate astrophysical simulations. Cholla models the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Evan E. Schneider , Brant E. Robertson

We present the Cosmic Lyman-$\alpha$ Transfer code (COLT), a massively parallel Monte-Carlo radiative transfer code, to simulate Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) resonant scattering through neutral hydrogen as a probe of the first galaxies. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Aaron Smith , Chalence Safranek-Shrader , Volker Bromm , Miloš Milosavljević

We introduce CRASH-AMR, a new version of the cosmological Radiative Transfer (RT) code CRASH, enabled to use refined grids. This new feature allows us to attain higher resolution in our RT simulations and thus to describe more accurately…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 N. Hariharan , L. Graziani , B. Ciardi , F. Miniati , H. -J. Bungartz

Cosmological simulations of structures and galaxies formations have played a fundamental role in the study of the origin, formation and evolution of the Universe. These studies improved enormously with the use of supercomputers and parallel…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 U. Becciani , V. Antonuccio , M. Comparato

Legacy codes are in ubiquitous use in scientific simulations; they are well-tested and there is significant time investment in their use. However, one challenge is the adoption of new, sometimes incompatible computing paradigms, such as GPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Nicolas Nytko , Andrew Reisner , J. David Moulton , Luke N. Olson , Matthew West

ART$^2$ is a 3D multi-wavelength Monte Carlo radiative transfer (RT) code that couples continuum and emission lines to track the propagation of photons and their interactions with the interstellar medium (ISM). The previous version of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-25 Yuexing Li , Ming F. Gu , Hidenobu Yajima , Qirong Zhu , Moupiya Maji

We present a new implementation of radiation hydrodynamics (RHD) in the adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) code RAMSES. The multi-group radiative transfer (RT) is performed on the AMR grid with a first-order Godunov method using the M1 closure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Joakim Rosdahl , Jeremy Blaizot , Dominique Aubert , Timothy Stranex , Romain Teyssier

We present a novel Lyman alpha (Ly$\alpha$) radiative transfer code, SEURAT, where line scatterings are solved adaptively with the resolution of the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). The radiative transfer method implemented in SEURAT…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-30 Makito Abe , Hiroyuki Suzuki , Kenji Hasegawa , Benoit Semelin , Hidenobu Yajima , Masayuki Umemura

We describe a code designed for hot media {(T $\ge$} a few 10$^4$ K), optically thick to Compton scattering. It computes the structure of a plane-parallel slab of gas in thermal and ionization equilibrium, illuminated on one side or on both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Anne-Marie Dumont , Suzy Collin

Resonance lines encode rich information about astrophysical sources and their environments, yet fully analytic treatments of multi-line radiative transfer remain almost entirely unexplored. We present exact, closed-form solutions for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-18 Ethan Stace , Aaron Smith , Kevin Lorinc , Olof Nebrin

The world's largest particle accelerator, located at CERN, produces petabytes of data that need to be analysed efficiently, to study the fundamental structures of our universe. ROOT is an open-source C++ data analysis framework, developed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Jolly Chen , Monica Dessole , Ana Lucia Varbanescu

Current observational data of exoplanets are providing increasing detail of their 3D atmospheric structures. As characterisation efforts expand in scope, the need to develop consistent 3D radiative-transfer methods becomes more pertinent as…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-04 Elspeth K. H. Lee , Jake Taylor , Simon L. Grimm , Jean-Loup Baudino , Ryan Garland , Patrick G. J. Irwin , Kenneth Wood

This paper describes the submissions of the "Marian" team to the WNMT 2018 shared task. We investigate combinations of teacher-student training, low-precision matrix products, auto-tuning and other methods to optimize the Transformer model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt , Kenneth Heafield , Hieu Hoang , Roman Grundkiewicz , Anthony Aue

We present a novel radiation hydrodynamics code, START, which is a smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) scheme coupled with accelerated radiative transfer. The basic idea for the acceleration of radiative transfer is parallel to the tree…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Kenji Hasegawa , Masayuki Umemura

We present a freely downloadable software package for modelling the dynamics of galaxies, which we call the Torus Mapper (TM). The package is based around `torus mapping', which is a non-perturbative technique for creating orbital tori for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-27 James Binney , Paul J McMillan

Detailed modeling of the evolution of neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium during the Epoch of Reionization, $5 \leq z \leq 20$, is critical in interpreting the cosmological signals from current and upcoming 21-cm experiments such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-30 Patrick Hirling , Michele Bianco , Sambit K. Giri , Ilian T. Iliev , Garrelt Mellema , Jean-Paul Kneib