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Improving the efficiency of the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method has become increasingly urgent with the rapid development of space exploration. To address this issue, the direct intermittent general synthetic iteration (DIG)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Bin Hu , Liyan Luo , Kaiyuan Wang , Lei Wu

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) is a powerful and accurate method to sample from the posterior distribution in Bayesian inference. However, HMC techniques are computationally demanding for Bayesian neural networks due to the high…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-11 Ponkrshnan Thiagarajan , Tamer A. Zaki , Michael D. Shields

Sampling problems are widely regarded as the task for which quantum computers can most readily provide a quantum advantage. Leveraging this feature, the quantum-enhanced Markov chain Monte Carlo [Layden, D. et al., Nature 619, 282-287…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Yuichiro Nakano , Ken N. Okada , Keisuke Fujii

This paper addresses optimization problems constrained by partial differential equations with uncertain coefficients. In particular, the robust control problem and the average control problem are considered for a tracking type cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-08 Andreas Van Barel , Stefan Vandewalle

We propose the powerful integration of the Hybrid Monte Carlo (hybridMC) algorithm and Well-Tempered Metadynamics. This new algorithm, hybridMC-MetaD, enhances the flexibility and applicability of metadynamics by allowing for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-25 Charlotte Shiqi Zhao , Sun-Ting Tsai , Sharon C. Glotzer

The basic idea of fast Monte Carlo (MC) simulations is to perform particle-based MC simulations with the excluded-volume interactions modeled by "soft" repulsive potentials that allow particle overlapping. This gives much faster system…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-01-24 Qiang Wang

Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) calculations typically yield highly accurate results in solid-state and quantum-chemical calculations. However, operators that do not commute with the Hamiltonian are at best sampled correctly up to second order…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Gaudoin , J. M. Pitarke

The three-body dynamics of the ionization of the atomic hydrogen by 30 keV antiproton impact has been investigated by calculation of fully differential cross sections (FDCS) using the classical trajectory Monte Carlo (CTMC) method. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 L. Sarkadi , L. Gulyás

The computational demand posed by applying multi-Slater determinant trials in phaseless auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo methods (MSD-AFQMC) is particularly significant for molecules exhibiting strong correlations. Here, we propose using…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Hung Q. Pham , Runsheng Ouyang , Dingshun Lv

Differentiable programming has emerged as a key programming paradigm empowering rapid developments of deep learning while its applications to important computational methods such as Monte Carlo remain largely unexplored. Here we present the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-08-28 Shi-Xin Zhang , Zhou-Quan Wan , Hong Yao

This paper presents two novel ensemble domain decomposition methods for fast-solving the Stokes-Darcy coupled models with random hydraulic conductivity and body force. To address such random systems, we employ the Monte Carlo (MC) method to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Chunchi Liu , Yao Rong , Yizhong Sun , Jiaping Yu , Haibiao Zheng

The capability to simulate a two-way coupled interaction between a rarefied gas and an arbitrary-shaped colloidal particle is important for many practical applications, such as aerospace engineering, lung drug deliver and semiconductor…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Cosimo Livi , Gianluca Di Staso , Herman H. J. Clercx , Federico Toschi

Artifacts arise in the simulations of electrolytes using periodic boundary conditions (PBC). We show the origin of these artifacts are the periodic image charges and the constraint of charge neutrality inside the simulation box, both of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-09-30 Yihao Liang , Zhenli Xu , Xiangjun Xing

The problem of optimising functions with intractable gradients frequently arise in machine learning and statistics, ranging from maximum marginal likelihood estimation procedures to fine-tuning of generative models. Stochastic approximation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-30 James Cuin , Davide Carbone , Yanbo Tang , O. Deniz Akyildiz

Accurate free energy representations are crucial for understanding phase dynamics in materials. We employ a scale-bridging approach to incorporate atomistic information into our free energy model by training a neural network on DFT-informed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Jamie Holber , Krishna Garikipati

Monte Carlo statistical ray-tracing methods are commonly employed to simulate carrier transport in nanostructured materials. In the case of a large degree of nanostructuring and under linear response (small driving fields), these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-09 Pankaj Priyadarshi , Neophytos Neophytou

Reduced-order simulation is an emerging method for accelerating physical simulations with high DOFs, and recently developed neural-network-based methods with nonlinear subspaces have been proven effective in diverse applications as more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Aoran Lyu , Shixian Zhao , Chuhua Xian , Zhihao Cen , Hongmin Cai , Guoxin Fang

Sliding mode control (SMC) is a robust and computationally efficient model-based controller design technique for highly nonlinear systems, in the presence of model and external uncertainties. However, the implementation of the conventional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-18 Mohammad Reza Amini , Mahdi Shahbakhti , Selina Pan

This study develops and validates neural network frameworks with physics-based constraints for surrogate modeling of rarefied gas dynamics across different levels of complexity. As a baseline, we first examine the BGK kinetic relaxation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-09 Ehsan Roohi , Ahmad Shoja-Sani , Bijan Goshayeshi , Ahmad Peyvan

Nested Monte Carlo is widely used for risk estimation, but its efficiency is limited by the discontinuity of the indicator function and high computational cost. This paper proposes a nested Multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) method combined with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Yu Xu , Xiaoqun Wang