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I developed an efficient numerical method for obtaining the gravitational potential of razor-thin spiral perturbations and used it to assess the standard tight-winding approximation, which is found to be reasonably accurate for pitch angles…

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In this letter we calculate the exact partition function for free bosons on the plane with lacunae. First the partition function for a plane with two spherical holes is calculated by matching exactly for the infinite set of Wilson…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Ira Z. Rothstein

A collection of algorithms is described for numerically computing with smooth functions defined on the unit sphere. Functions are approximated to essentially machine precision by using a structure-preserving iterative variant of Gaussian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-05 Alex Townsend , Heather Wilber , Grady B. Wright

Over many years, computational simulations based on Density Functional Theory (DFT) have been used extensively to study many different materials at the atomic scale. However, its application is restricted by system size, leaving a number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Carlos Romero-Muñiz , Ayako Nakata , Pablo Pou , David R. Bowler , Tsuyoshi Miyazaki , Rubén Pérez

A class of complete potential-density basis sets in cylindrical (R,phi,z) coordinates is presented. This class is suitable for stability studies of galactic disks in three dimensions and includes basis sets tailored for disks with vertical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 David J. D. Earn

The 3D Gaussian splatting method has drawn a lot of attention, thanks to its high performance in training and high quality of the rendered image. However, it uses anisotropic Gaussian kernels to represent the scene. Although such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yuanhao Gong , Lantao Yu , Guanghui Yue

The sensitivity of computed DFT (Density Functional Theory) molecular properties (including energetics, geometries, vibrational frequencies, and infrared intensities) to the radial and angular numerical integration grid meshes, as well as…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-08-27 Jan M. L. Martin , Charles W. Bauschlicher, , Alessandra Ricca

A high-order accurate, explicit kernel-split, panel-based, Fourier-Nystr\"om discretization scheme is developed for integral equations associated with the Helmholtz equation in axially symmetric domains. Extensive incorporation of analytic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-12 Johan Helsing , Anders Karlsson

We consider the statistical properties of the gravitational field F in an infinite one-dimensional homogeneous Poisson distribution of particles, using an exponential cut-off of the pair interaction to control and study the divergences…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Andrea Gabrielli , Michael Joyce

When a pulsed, few-cycle electromagnetic wave is focused by optics with f-number smaller than two, the frequency components it contains are focused to different regions of space, building up a complex electromagnetic field structure.…

Density-potential functional theory (DPFT) is an alternative formulation of orbital-free density functional theory that may be suitable for modeling the electronic structure of large systems. To date, DPFT has been applied mainly to quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-21 Martin-Isbjörn Trappe , William C. Witt , Sergei Manzhos

Aims. Our aim is to derive a fast and accurate method for computing the gravitational potential of astrophysical objects with high contrasts in density, for which nested or adaptive meshes are required. Methods. We present an extension of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Eduard Vorobyov , James McKevitt , Igor Kulikov , Vardan Elbakyan

With tens of petaflops supercomputers already in operation and exaflops machines expected to appear within the next 10 years, efficient parallel computational methods are required to take advantage of such extreme-scale machines. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-11-13 Truong Vinh Truong Duy , Taisuke Ozaki

In many astrophysical problems involving discs (gaseous or particulate) orbiting a dominant central mass, gravitational potential of the disc plays an important dynamical role. Its impact on the motion of external objects, as well as on the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Antranik A. Sefilian , Roman R. Rafikov

In this work, we consider pressurized phase-field fracture problems in nearly and fully incompressible materials. To this end, a mixed form for the solid equations is proposed. To enhance the accuracy of the spatial discretization, a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Seshadri Basava , Katrin Mang , Mirjam Walloth , Thomas Wick , Winnifried Wollner

Linear scaling methods for density-functional theory (DFT) simulations are formulated in terms of localised orbitals in real-space, rather than the delocalised eigenstates of conventional approaches. In local-orbital methods, relative to…

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New exact solutions are derived for the gravitational potential inside and outside a homogeneous torus as rapidly converging series of toroidal harmonics. The approach consists of splitting the inter- nal potential into a known solution to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 Matt Majic

The knowledge of effective masses is a key ingredient to analyze numerous properties of semiconductors, like carrier mobilities, (magneto-)transport properties, or band extrema characteristics yielding carrier densities and density of…

We examine the results of Chiral Effective Field Theory ($\chi$EFT) for the scalar- and spin-dipole polarisabilities of the proton and neutron, both for the physical pion mass and as a function of $m_\pi$. This provides chiral…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-07-15 Harald W. Griesshammer , Judith A. McGovern , Daniel R. Phillips

Gaussian particles provide a flexible framework for modelling and simulating three-dimensional star-shaped random sets. In our framework, the radial function of the particle arises from a kernel smoothing, and is associated with an…