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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

Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of lattice models are a widely used way to compute thermodynamic properties of substitutional alloys. A limitation to their more widespread use is the difficulty of driving a MC simulation in order to obtain the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. van de Walle , M. Asta

The simulation scheme for heterostructural growth of compound semiconductors is presented based on the kinetic Monte Carlo method. The sheme is designed as simple as possible in order to apply it for any heteroepitaxial growth on GaAs(001)…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Akira Ishii , Masatoshi Tsukao , Natsue Toda , Shunsuke Oshima

Cell segmentation in microscopy is a challenging problem, since cells are often asymmetric and densely packed. This becomes particularly challenging for extremely large images, since manual intervention and processing time can make…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-19 Mahsa Lotfollahi , Sebastian Berisha , Leila Saadatifard , Laura Montier , Jokubas Ziburkus , David Mayerich

On the base of a Feynman-Kac--type formula involving Poisson stochastic processes, recently a Monte Carlo algorithm has been introduced, which describes exactly the real- or imaginary-time evolution of many-body lattice quantum systems. We…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-07-19 Massimo Ostilli , Carlo Presilla

We consider Monte Carlo simulations of classical spin models of statistical mechanics using the massively parallel architecture provided by graphics processing units (GPUs). We discuss simulations of models with discrete and continuous…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-07-20 Martin Weigel , Taras Yavors'kii

We present the Monte Carlo with Absorbing Markov Chains (MCAMC) method for extremely long kinetic Monte Carlo simulations. The MCAMC algorithm does not modify the system dynamics. It is extremely useful for models with discrete state spaces…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Novotny , Shannon M. Wheeler

In this paper we provide a detailed description of the inchworm Monte Carlo formalism for the exact study of real-time non-adiabatic dynamics. This method optimally recycles Monte Carlo information from earlier times to greatly suppress the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-02-10 Hsing-Ta Chen , Guy Cohen , David R. Reichman

We describe collective-move Monte Carlo algorithms designed to approximate the overdamped dynamics of self-assembling nanoscale components equipped with strong, short-ranged and anisotropic interactions. Conventional Monte Carlo simulations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-16 Stephen Whitelam

Population annealing Monte Carlo is an efficient sequential algorithm for simulating k-local Boolean Hamiltonians. Because of its structure, the algorithm is inherently parallel and therefore well suited for large-scale simulations of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-11-26 Amin Barzegar , Christopher Pattison , Wenlong Wang , Helmut G. Katzgraber

We investigate growth on vicinal surfaces by molecular beam epitaxy making use of a generalized Burton--Cabrera--Frank model. Our primary aim is to propose and implement a novel analytical program based on a perturbative solution of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 S. Harris , P. Šmilauer

A method based on the kinetics of adatoms on a growing surface under epitaxial growth at low temperature in (1+1) dimensions is proposed to obtain a closed form of local growth equation. It can be generalized to any growth problem as long…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 S. V. Ghaisas

Proposed here is a dynamic Monte-Carlo algorithm that is efficient in simulating dense systems of long flexible chain molecules. It expands on the configurational-bias Monte-Carlo method through the simultaneous generation of a large set of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-29 Niels Boon

We perform a mass constrained phase-field approximation for a model that describes the epitaxial growth of a two-dimensional thin film on a substrate in the context of linearised elasticity. The approximated model encodes a variable on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Gabriele Fissore

We show how to apply the absorbing Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm of Novotny to simulate kinetically constrained models of glasses. We consider in detail one-spin facilitated models, such as the East model and its generalizations to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Douglas J. Ashton , Lester O. Hedges , Juan P. Garrahan

We present a continuous-variable photonic quantum algorithm for the Monte Carlo evaluation of multi-dimensional integrals. Our algorithm encodes n-dimensional integration into n+3 modes and can provide a quadratic speedup in runtime…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-10 Patrick Rebentrost , Brajesh Gupt , Thomas R. Bromley

We provide an overview of Monte Carlo algorithms based on Markovian stochastic dynamics of interacting and reacting many-particle systems not in thermal equilibrium. These agent-based simulations are an effective way of introducing students…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-24 Mohamed Swailem , Ulrich Dobramysl , Ruslan Mukhamadiarov , Uwe C. Täuber

Many materials science phenomena, such as growth and self-organisation, are dominated by activated diffusion processes and occur on timescales that are well beyond the reach of standard-molecular dynamics simulations. Kinetic Monte Carlo…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 fedwa El-Mellouhi , Normand Mousseau , Laurent J. Lewis

Particle-based kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of neutral particles is one of the major computational bottlenecks in tokamak scrape-off layer simulations. This computational cost comes from the need to resolve individual collision events in…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Oskar Lappi , Emil Løvbak , Thijs Steel , Giovanni Samaey

This paper presents a class of one-dimensional cellular automata (CA) models on traffic flows, featuring nonlocal look-ahead interactions. We develop kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) algorithms to simulate the dynamics. The standard KMC method can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Yi Sun , Changhui Tan