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Efficient Monte Carlo (MC) sampling of many-body systems with long-range electrostatics is often limited by the cost of per-move energy-difference evaluation under periodic boundary conditions. We present DMK-MC, an accelerated MC method…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Xuanzhao Gao , Shidong Jiang , Jiuyang Liang , Qi Zhou

Two of the primary sources of error in the Cluster dynamical mean-field theory (CDMFT) technique arise from the use of finite size clusters and finite size baths, which makes the development of impurity solvers that can treat larger systems…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-12 P. Rosenberg , D. Sénéchal , A. -M. S. Tremblay , M. Charlebois

The behavior of a Lattice Monte Carlo algorithm (if it is designed correctly) must approach that of the continuum system that it is designed to simulate as the time step and the mesh step tend to zero. However, we show for an algorithm for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-08-23 Mykyta V. Chubynsky , Gary W. Slater

Sampling from log-concave distributions is a well researched problem that has many applications in statistics and machine learning. We study the distributions of the form $p^{*}\propto\exp(-f(x))$, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Ruoqi Shen , Yin Tat Lee

Global search and optimization of long-duration, low-thrust spacecraft trajectories with the indirect method is challenging due to a complex solution space and the difficulty of generating good initial guesses for the costate variables.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-06 Jannik Graebner , Ryne Beeson

In the present work, we present a novel numerical algorithm to couple the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo method (DSMC) for the solution of the Boltzmann equation with a finite volume like method for the solution of the Euler equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Pierre Degond , Giacomo Dimarco

Discrete diffusion models have become highly effective across various domains. However, real-world applications often require the generative process to adhere to certain constraints. To this end, we propose a Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zijing Ou , Chinmay Pani , Yingzhen Li

In this work, we introduce a simple modification of the Monte Carlo algorithm, which we call step Monte Carlo (sMC). The sMC approach allows to simulate processes far from equilibrium and obtain information about the dynamic properties of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-15 Dariusz Sztenkiel

We report developments of the kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) method with improved accuracy and increased versatility for the description of atomic diffusivity on metal surfaces. The on-lattice constraint built into our recently proposed…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-11-27 Oleg Trushin , Handan Yildirim , Abdelkader Kara , Talat S. Rahman

Dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) is one of the most widely used theoretical methods for electronic structure calculations, providing self-consistent solutions even in low-temperature regimes, which are exact in the limit of infinite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-06 Johan Carlström

In this paper we develop a direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method for simulating highly nonequilibrium dynamics of nearly degenerate ultra-cold gases. We show that our method can simulate the high-energy collision of two thermal clouds…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-10-16 A. C. J. Wade , D. Baillie , P. B. Blakie

We present Diffusion Restore, a real-time framework for diffusion-based MCMC light transport. MCMC methods are highly suitable for sampling from complex high-dimensional distributions and for approximating integrals over them. In practice,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Sascha Holl , Gurprit Singh , Hans-Peter Seidel

The Derivative Source Method (DSM) takes derivatives of a particle transport equation with respect to selected parameters and solves them via the standard Monte Carlo random walk simulation along with the original transport problem. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Ilham Variansyah , Ryan G. McClarren , Todd S. Palmer

We describe a hybrid Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) code for simultaneously solving the collisional Boltzmann equation for gas and the collisionless Boltzmann equation for stars and dark matter for problems important to galaxy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Martin D. Weinberg

We present a detailed study of the energetics of water clusters (H$_2$O)$_n$ with $n \le 6$, comparing diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) and approximate density functional theory (DFT) with well converged coupled-cluster benchmarks. We use the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-04 M. J. Gillan , F. R. Manby , M. D. Towler , D. Alfè

We present a combined analytical and numerical approach based on the Mori projection operator formalism and Monte Carlo simulations to study surface diffusion within the lattice-gas model. In the present theory, the average jump rate and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 T. Hjelt , I. Vattulainen , J. Merikoski , T. Ala-Nissila , S. C. Ying

Diffusion of interstitial alloying elements like H, O, C, and N in metals and their continuous relocation and interactions with their microstructures have crucial influences on metals properties. However, besides limitations in experimental…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-18 Seyed Sina Moeini-Ardakani , Seyedeh Mohadeseh Taheri-Mousavi , Ju Li

We briefly review the principles, mathematical bases, numerical shortcuts and applications of fast random walk (FRW) algorithms. This Monte Carlo technique allows one to simulate individual trajectories of diffusing particles in order to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-05-01 Denis Grebenkov

We develop a diffuse solid method that is versatile and accurate for modeling wetting and multiphase flows in highly complex geometries. In this scheme, we harness N + 1-component phase field models to investigate interface shapes and flow…