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We investigate the possibility of generating initial conditions for cosmological N-body simulations by simulating a system whose correlations at thermal equilibrium approximate well those of cosmological density perturbations. The system is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Joyce , D. Levesque , B. Marcos

The quasistatic approximation (QSA) is an efficient method of simulating laser- and beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration, but it becomes imprecise if some plasma particles make long longitudinal excursions in a strongly nonlinear wave,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 P. V. Tuev , R. I. Spitsyn , K. V. Lotov

We propose a new method to recover the cosmological initial conditions of the presently observed galaxy distribution, which can serve to run constrained simulations of the Local Universe. Our method, the Reverse Zeldovich Approximation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Timur Doumler , Yehuda Hoffman , Helene Courtois , Stefan Gottloeber

The reduced speed of light approximation (RSLA) has been employed to speed up radiative transfer simulations of reionization by a factor of $\gtrsim 5-10$. However, it has been shown to cause significant errors in the HI-ionizing background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-20 Christopher Cain

Reconstructing the density fluctuations in the early Universe that evolved into the distribution of galaxies we see today is a challenge of modern cosmology [ref.]. An accurate reconstruction would allow us to test cosmological models by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Uriel Frisch , Sabino Matarrese , Roya Mohayaee , Andrei Sobolevski

We propose a method for reconstruction of the density matrix from measurable time-dependent (probability) distributions of physical quantities. The applicability of the method based on least-squares inversion is - compared with other…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 T. Opatrny , D. -G. Welsch , W. Vogel

We describe and test a new method for creating initial conditions for cosmological N-body dark matter simulations based on second-order Lagrangian perturbation theory (2lpt). The method can be applied to multi-mass particle distributions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Adrian Jenkins

In this work a method for reconstructing velocity and acceleration fields is described which uses scattered particle tracking data from flow experiments as input. The goal is to reconstruct these fields faithfully with a limited amount of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-02 Sebastian Gesemann

A new approach to simulating warm and hot dense matter that combines density functional theory based calculations of the electronic structure to classical molecular dynamics simulations with pair interaction potentials is presented. The new…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 C. E. Starrett , J. Daligault , D. Saumon

Motion planning of autonomous agents in partially known environments with incomplete information is a challenging problem, particularly for complex tasks. This paper proposes a model-free reinforcement learning approach to address this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Junchao Li , Mingyu Cai , Zhen Kan , Shaoping Xiao

We describe the irrotational dust component of the universe in terms of a relativistic gradient expansion and transform the resulting synchronous metric to a Newtonian coordinate system. The two metrics are connected via a space-like…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-06 Cornelius Rampf , Gerasimos Rigopoulos

Reconstructing astrophysical and cosmological fields from observations is challenging. It requires accounting for non-linear transformations, mixing of spatial structure, and noise. In contrast, forward simulators that map fields to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-01 Florian List , Noemi Anau Montel , Christoph Weniger

In this work we describe a $\delta f$ particle simulation method where the bulk density is periodically remapped on a coarse spline grid using a Forward-Backward Lagrangian (FBL) approach. This method is designed to handle plasma regimes…

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We implement the reinforcement learning agent for a spin-1 atomic system to prepare spin squeezed state from given initial state. Proximal policy gradient (PPO) algorithm is used to deal with continuous external control field and final…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-21 Jun-Jie Chen , Ming Xue

This work aims to automate the design of Multiple Gravity-Assist (MGA) transfers between planets using low-thrust propulsion. In particular, during the preliminary design phase of space missions, the combinatorial complexity of MGA…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Sean Cowan , Ron Noomen

We analyze the efficiency of parallelization and restart mechanisms for stochastic simulations in model-free settings, where the underlying system dynamics are unknown. Such settings are common in Reinforcement Learning (RL) and rare event…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Ernesto Garcia , Paola Bermolen , Matthieu Jonckheere , Seva Shneer

Reinforcement-based learning has attracted considerable attention both in modeling human behavior as well as in engineering, for designing measurement- or payoff-based optimization schemes. Such learning schemes exhibit several advantages,…

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We propose and detail a multi-step analytical procedure, based on an improved fully relativistic plane model for Laser Wake Field Acceleration, to tailor the initial density of a cold diluted plasma to the laser pulse profile, so as to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Gaetano Fiore , Paolo Tomassini

We present a numerical implementation of the guiding center approximation to describe the relativistic motion of charged test particles in the PLUTO code for astrophysical plasma dynamics. The guiding center approximation (GCA) removes the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 A. Mignone , H. Haudemand , E. Puzzoni