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We extend the recently developed entropic and conservative variance reduction framework [M. Sadr, N. G. Hadjiconstantinou, A variance-reduced direct Monte Carlo simulation method for solving the Boltzmann equation over a wide range of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Victor Windhab , Andreas Adelmann , Mohsen Sadr

Particle-in-cell merging algorithms aim to resample dynamically the six-dimensional phase space occupied by particles without distorting substantially the physical description of the system. Whereas various approaches have been proposed in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-11-16 Marija Vranic , Thomas Grismayer , Joana L. Martins , Ricardo A. Fonseca , Luis O. Silva

Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations with Monte-Carlo collisions are used in plasma science to explore a variety of kinetic effects. One major problem is the long run-time of such simulations. Even on modern computer systems, PIC codes take a…

This work describes a novel radiation algorithm designed to capture the three-dimensional, space-time resolved electromagnetic field structure emitted by large ensembles of charged particles. % in particle-in-cell (PIC) codes. The algorithm…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 M. Pardal , A. Sainte-Marie , A. Reboul-Salze , R. A. Fonseca , J. Viera

N-body simulations and trajectory analysis rely on the calculation of attributes that depend on pairwise particle distances within a cutoff. Interparticle potential energies, forces, distribution functions, neighbor lists, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Leandro Martínez

We present a study of the standard plasma physics test, Landau damping, using the Particle-In-Cell (PIC) algorithm. The Landau damping phenomenon consists of the damping of small oscillations in plasmas without collisions. In the PIC…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-03-23 Daniel S. Finn , Matthew G. Knepley , Joseph V. Pusztay , Mark F. Adams

Phenomena taking place in capacitively coupled plasmas with large electrodes and driven at very high frequencies are studied numerically utilizing a novel energy- and charge-conserving implicit fully electromagnetic particle-in-cell / Monte…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 D. Eremin , E. Kemaneci , M. Matsukuma , T. Mussenbrock , R. P. Brinkmann

This paper discusses energy-conserving time-discretizations for finite element particle-in-cell discretizations of the Vlasov--Maxwell system. A geometric spatially discrete system can be obtained using a standard particle-in-cell…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Katharina Kormann , Eric Sonnendrücker

Cellular automata have become a cornerstone for investigating emergence and self-organization across diverse scientific disciplines. However, the absence of a hardware-accelerated cellular automata library limits the exploration of new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Maxence Faldor , Antoine Cully

The Particle-In-Cell (PIC) method is widely used in relativistic particle beam and laser plasma modeling. However, the PIC method exhibits numerical instabilities that can render unphysical simulation results or even destroy the simulation.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 M. D. Meyers , C. -K. Huang , Y. Zeng , S. A. Yi , B. J. Albright

We introduce an efficient open-source python package for the inverse design of three-dimensional photonic nanostructures using the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method. Leveraging a flexible reverse-mode automatic differentiation…

We design and develop a new Particle-in-Cell (PIC) method for plasma simulations using Deep-Learning (DL) to calculate the electric field from the electron phase space. We train a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) and a Convolutional Neural…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Xavier Aguilar , Stefano Markidis

We revisit the Scovel-Weinstein framework (Scovel & Weinstein, CPAM 1994) for reducing the Vlasov-Poisson system while preserving its Hamiltonian structure. Standard particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithms approximate the distribution function by…

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A customized finite-difference field solver for the particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithm that provides higher fidelity for wave-particle interactions in intense electromagnetic waves is presented. In many problems of interest, particles with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Fei Li , Kyle G. Miller , Xinlu Xu , Frank S. Tsung , Viktor K. Decyk , Weiming An , Ricardo A. Fonseca , Warren B. Mori

In high-temperature plasma physics, a strong magnetic field is usually used to confine charged particles. Therefore, for studying the classical mathematical models of the physical problems it needs to consider the effect of external…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Anjiao Gu , Yajuan Sun

Structure-preserving methods can be derived for the Vlasov-Maxwell system from a discretisation of the Poisson bracket with compatible finite-elements for the fields and a particle representation of the distribution function. These…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-17 Benedikt Perse , Katharina Kormann , Eric Sonnendrücker

A three-dimensional, parallelized implementation of the electromagnetic relativistic moment implicit particle-in-cell method in Cartesian geometry (Noguchi et. al., 2007) is presented. Particular care was taken to keep the C++11 codebase…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 Andreas Kempf , Patrick Kilian , Urs Ganse , Cedric Schreiner , Felix Spanier

Particle-based fluid simulations have emerged as a powerful tool for solving the Navier-Stokes equations, especially in cases that include intricate physics and free surfaces. The recent addition of machine learning methods to the toolbox…

Optical multilayer thin-films are fundamental components that enable the precise control of reflectance, transmittance, and phase shift in the design of photonic systems. Rapid and accessible simulation of these structures holds critical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Bahrem Serhat Danis , Esra Zayim

The Poisson equation has wide applications in many areas of science and engineering. Although there are some quantum algorithms that can efficiently solve the Poisson equation, they generally require a fault-tolerant quantum computer which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Hailing Liu , Yusen Wu , Linchun Wan , Shijie Pan , Sujuan Qin , Fei Gao , Qiaoyan Wen
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