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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 present a new magnetohydrodynamic-particle-in-cell (MHD-PIC) code integrated into the Athena++ framework. It treats energetic particles as in conventional PIC codes while the rest of thermal plasmas are treated as background fluid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-31 Xiaochen Sun , Xue-Ning Bai

Smoothing short-wavelength charge density variations can stabilize explicit electrostatic particle-in-cell (PIC) plasma simulations against grid heating and cold beam instabilities, which cause unphysical heating when the Debye length is…

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A variety of models for the membrane-mediated interaction of particles in lipid membranes, mostly well-established in theoretical physics, is reviewed from a mathematical perspective. We provide mathematically consistent formulations in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-29 Charles M. Elliott , Carsten Gräser , Graham Hobbs , Ralf Kornhuber , Maren-Wanda Wolf

Scalable and efficient numerical simulations continue to gain importance, as computation is firmly established as the third pillar of discovery, alongside theory and experiment. Meanwhile, the performance of computing hardware grows through…

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Runko is a new open-source plasma simulation framework implemented in C++ and Python. It is designed to function as an easy-to-extend general toolbox for simulating astrophysical plasmas with different theoretical and numerical models.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 J. Nättilä

The Message Passing Interface (MPI) is the prevalent programming model used on today's supercomputers. Therefore, MPI library developers are looking for the best possible performance (shortest run-time) of individual MPI functions across…

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In this paper, we present a novel numerical framework for solving a specific biological reaction-diffusion-advection system of cancer growth in three dimensions (3D) using particles of variable mass. We adopt empirical particle measures to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Jingyuan Hu , Zhongjian Wang , Jack Xin , Zhiwen Zhang

QC Lab is an open-source Python package for QC dynamics simulations aimed to promote the development of QC algorithms, and their application to a wide variety of relevant model problems. It follows a modular design that facilitates…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Alex Krotz , Ethan Byrd , Ken Miyazaki , Roel Tempelaar

We introduce Perceval, an open-source software platform for simulating and interfacing with discrete-variable photonic quantum computers, and describe its main features and components. Its Python front-end allows photonic circuits to be…

Particle-in-Cell (PIC) method is a powerful plasma simulation tool for investigating high-intensity femtosecond laser-matter interaction. However, its simulation capability at high-density plasmas around the Fermi temperature is considered…

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Continuous latent variables (LVs) are a key ingredient of many generative models, as they allow modelling expressive mixtures with an uncountable number of components. In contrast, probabilistic circuits (PCs) are hierarchical discrete…

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The traditional Transformer model encounters challenges with variable-length input sequences, particularly in Hyperspectral Image Classification (HSIC), leading to efficiency and scalability concerns. To overcome this, we propose a…

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Ordinary differential equation models facilitate the understanding of cellular signal transduction and other biological processes. However, for large and comprehensive models, the computational cost of simulating or calibrating can be…

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Recently, perceptual image compression has achieved significant advancements, delivering high visual quality at low bitrates for natural images. However, for screen content, existing methods often produce noticeable artifacts when…

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Recent advances in both theory and computational power have created opportunities to simulate biomolecular processes more efficiently using adaptive ensemble simulations. Ensemble simulations are now widely used to compute a number of…

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In this talk I discuss the general question of the portability of Molecular Dynamics codes for diffusive systems on parallel computers of the APE family. The intrinsic single precision arithmetics of the today available APE platforms does…

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A central goal in creating long-distance quantum networks and distributed quantum computing is the development of interconnected and individually controlled qubit nodes. Atom-like emitters in diamond have emerged as a leading system for…

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Guangye Chen , Luis Chacón , Daniel C. Barnes