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We present results from our cosmological N-body simulation which consisted of 2048x2048x2048 particles and ran distributed across three supercomputers throughout Europe. The run, which was performed as the concluding phase of the…

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We present a new high-resolution N-body algorithm for cosmological simulations. The algorithm employs a traditional particle-mesh technique on a cubic grid and successive multilevel relaxations on the finer meshes, introduced recursively in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Andrey V. Kravtsov , Anatoly A. Klypin , Alexei M. Khokhlov

State-of-the-art cosmological simulations on classical computers are limited by time, energy, and memory usage. Quantum computers can perform some calculations exponentially faster than classical computers, using exponentially less energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Philip Mocz , Aaron Szasz

The conventional method of generating initial conditions for cosmological N-body simulations introduces a significant error in the real-space statistical properties of the particles. More specifically, the finite box size leads to a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Edwin Sirko

The complexity and accuracy of current and future precision cosmology observational campaigns has made it essential to develop an efficient technique for directly combining simulation and observational datasets to determine cosmological and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Katrin Heitmann , David Higdon , Charles Nakhleh , Salman Habib

Gravitational lensing has been identified as a powerful tool to address fundamental problems in astrophysics at different scales, ranging from exoplanet identification to dark energy and dark matter characterization in cosmology. Image…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-17 Andrés A. Plazas

Commercial graphics processors (GPUs) have high compute capacity at very low cost, which makes them attractive for general purpose scientific computing. In this paper we show how graphics processors can be used for N-body simulations to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-06-22 Erich Elsen , V. Vishal , Mike Houston , Vijay Pande , Pat Hanrahan , Eric Darve

We present a new method for generating initial conditions for numerical cosmological simulations in which massive neutrinos are treated as an extra set of N-body (collisionless) particles. It allows us to accurately follow the density field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-26 Arka Banerjee , Devon Powell , Tom Abel , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

Accurate cosmological simulations that include the effect of non-linear matter clustering as well as of massive neutrinos are essential for measuring the neutrino mass scale from upcoming galaxy surveys. Typically, Newtonian simulations are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-24 Christian Partmann , Christian Fidler , Cornelius Rampf , Oliver Hahn

A timely combination of new theoretical ideas and observational discoveries has brought about significant advances in our understanding of cosmic evolution. Computer simulations have played a key role in these developments by providing the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-09 Carlos S. Frenk

Numerical simulations play a key important role in modern cosmology. Examples are plenty including the cosmic web - large scale structure of the distribution of galaxies in space - which was first observed in N-body simulations and later…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-07 Anatoly Klypin , Francisco Prada , Johan Comparat

The use of graphics processing units for scientific computations is an emerging strategy that can significantly speed up various different algorithms. In this review, we discuss advances made in the field of computational physics, focusing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-03-07 Ari Harju , Topi Siro , Filippo Federici-Canova , Samuli Hakala , Teemu Rantalaiho

We present a collection of new, open-source computational tools for numerically modeling recent large-scale observational data sets using modern cosmology theory. Specifically, these tools will allow both students and researchers to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-22 Jacob Moldenhauer , Larry Engelhardt , Keenan Stone , Ezekiel Shuler

Analysis of large galaxy surveys requires confidence in the robustness of numerical simulation methods. The simulations are used to construct mock galaxy catalogs to validate data analysis pipelines and identify potential systematics. We…

Simulation based inference has seen increasing interest in the past few years as a promising approach to model the non linear scales of galaxy clustering. The common approach using Gaussian process is to train an emulator over the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-20 Tyann Dumerchat , Julian Bautista

Analysis of self-similarity in scale-free $N$-body simulations reveals the spatial and temporal scales for which statistics measured in cosmological simulations are converged to the physical continuum limit. We examine how the range of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Lehman H. Garrison , Michael Joyce , Daniel J. Eisenstein

While experimental advancements continue to expand the capabilities to control and probe non-equilibrium quantum matter at an unprecedented level, the numerical simulation of the dynamics of correlated quantum systems remains a pivotal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-04 Markus Schmitt , Markus Heyl

Recently Quantum Computation has generated a lot of interest due to the discovery of a quantum algorithm which can factor large numbers in polynomial time. The usefulness of a quantum com puter is limited by the effect of errors. Simulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kevin M. Obenland , Alvin M. Despain

After two decades of direct dynamical simulation of large-scale structure in the universe, it is safe to say the subject is now mature. Still, there are parts of the problem that are less well developed than others. In general, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 August E. Evrard

A universal quantum simulator would enable efficient simulation of quantum dynamics by implementing quantum-simulation algorithms on a quantum computer. Specifically the quantum simulator would efficiently generate qubit-string states that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-08 Barry C. Sanders