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We propose a new Monte Carlo scheme to study the late-time dynamics of a 2-dim hard sphere fluid, modeled by a tethered network of hard spheres. Fluidity is simulated by breaking and reattaching the flexible tethers. We study the diffusion…

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In recent years, the freely available Monte Carlo code REAS for modelling radio emission from cosmic ray air showers has evolved to include the full complexity of air shower physics. However, it turned out that in REAS2 and all other…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-10-27 Marianne Ludwig , Tim Huege

We describe a Monte Carlo procedure which allows sampling of the disjoint configuration spaces associated with crystalline and fluid phases, within a single simulation. The method utilises biased sampling techniques to enhance the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. B. Wilding , A. D. Bruce

High-energy physics simulations traditionally rely on classical Monte Carlo methods to model complex particle interactions, often incurring significant computational costs. In this paper, we introduce a novel quantum-enhanced simulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Euimin Lee , Sangmin Lee , Shiho Kim

We present a velocity-based Monte Carlo fluid solver that overcomes the limitations of its existing vorticity-based counterpart. Because the velocity-based formulation is more commonly used in graphics, our Monte Carlo solver can be readily…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Ryusuke Sugimoto , Christopher Batty , Toshiya Hachisuka

One of the methods for studying the highest energy cosmic rays is to measure the fluorescence light emitted by the extensive air showers induced by them. To reconstruct a shower cascade curve from measurements of the number of photons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Maria Giller , Andrzej Smialkowski

Issues relating to extensive air showers observation by a space-borne fluorescence detector and the effects of clouds on the observations are investigated using Monte Carlo simulation. The simulations assume the presence of clouds with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Abu-Zayyad , C. C. H. Jui , E. C. Loh

In conventional molecular simulation, metastable structures often survive over considerable computational time, resulting in difficulties in simulating equilibrium states. In order to overcome this difficulty, here we propose a newly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-10-21 Yuki Norizoe , Toshihiro Kawakatsu

We show that reaction-diffusion processes in three dimensions can be efficiently handled by event-driven numerical simulations, based on statistical waiting times (Gillespie's Monte-Carlo method). The algorithm is efficient for dilute…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-11 Vincent Rossetto

The radio detection technique of cosmic ray air showers has gained renewed interest in the last two decades. While the radio experiments are very cost-effective to deploy, the Monte-Carlo simulations required to analyse the data are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-17 Mitja Desmet , Stijn Buitink , Tim Huege , David Butler , Ralph Engel , Olaf Scholten

Monte Carlo computer simulations are virtually the only way to analyze the thermodynamic behavior of a system in a precise way. However, the various existing methods exhibit extreme differences in their efficiency, depending on model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-05 Michael Bachmann

We developed a Monte Carlo simulation method to calculate incoherent Thomson scattering spectra in high temperature plasmas. The basic idea is to treat the entire scattering process as the superposition of individual photon-electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Kentaro Sakai , Kentaro Tomita , Takeo Hoshi , Ryo Yasuhara

In the study of phase transitions a very few models are accessible to exact solution. In the most cases analytical simplifications have to be done or some numerical technique has to be used to get insight about their critical properties.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-24 B. V. Costa , L. A. S. Mól , J. C. S. Rocha

Monte Carlo simulations using a hybrid quantum and classical mechanical potential were performed for crystal and amorphous-like HCl-water(n) clusters The subsystem composed by HCl and one water molecule was treated within Density Functional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Dario A. Estrin , Jorge Kohanoff , Daniel H. Laria , Ruben O. Weht

We discuss the efficiency of Monte Carlo methods in solving continuum radiative transfer problems. The sampling of the radiation field and convergence of dust temperature calculations in the case of optically thick clouds are both studied.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Juvela

At ultra-high energies, the flux of cosmic rays is too low for direct measurements to be meaningful. When a cosmic ray enters the atmosphere, it initiates an extensive air shower, producing a cascade of secondary particles that propagate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-25 Fiona Ellwanger , Darko Veberič

According to the shock jump conditions, the total fluid's mass, momentum, and energy should be conserved in the entire simulation box. We perform the dynamical Monte Carlo simulations with the multiple scattering law for energy analysis.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Xin Wang , Yihua Yan

A general synthetic iterative scheme is proposed to solve the Enskog equation within a Monte Carlo framework. The method demonstrates rapid convergence by reducing intermediate Monte Carlo evolution and preserves the asymptotic-preserving…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-26 Bin Hu , Liyan Luo , Lei Wu

Employing a classical density-functional description of liquid environments, we introduce a rigorous method for the diffusion quantum Monte Carlo calculation of free energies and thermodynamic averages of solvated systems that requires…

Recently the general form of a translation-covariant quantum Boltzmann equation has been derived which describes the dynamics of a tracer particle in a quantum gas. We develop a stochastic wave function algorithm that enables full…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-09-24 Heinz-Peter Breuer , Bassano Vacchini