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Monte Carlo simulations are an important tool in statistical physics, complex systems science, and many other fields. An increasing number of these simulations is run on parallel systems ranging from multicore desktop computers to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-10 Stephan Mertens

We present a Monte Carlo simulation for the scattering of light in the case of an isotropic light source. The scattering phase functions are studied particularly in detail to understand how they can affect the multiple light scattering in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-18 J. Colombi , K. Louedec

We present a comprehensive methodology for the simulation of astronomical images from optical survey telescopes. We use a photon Monte Carlo approach to construct images by sampling photons from models of astronomical source populations,…

We have implemented a Monte Carlo algorithm to model and predict the response of various kinds of CCDs to X-ray photons and minimally-ionizing particles and have applied this model to the CCDs in the Chandra X-ray Observatory's Advanced CCD…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 L. K. Townsley , P. S. Broos , G. Chartas , E. Moskalenko , J. A. Nousek , G. G. Pavlov

Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulation codes have wide applicability to first-principles modeling of multidimensional nonlinear plasma phenomena, including wake-field accelerators. This review addresses both finite difference and pseudo-spectral…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-08-07 Brendan B. Godfrey

We consider the implementation of a parallel Monte Carlo code for high-performance simulations on PC clusters with MPI. We carry out tests of speedup and efficiency. The code is used for numerical simulations of pure SU(2) lattice gauge…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Attilio Cucchieri , Tereza Mendes , Gonzalo Travieso , Andre R. Taurines

Wave-function Monte Carlo methods are an important tool for simulating quantum systems, but the standard method cannot be used to simulate decoherence in continuously measured systems. Here we present a new Monte Carlo method for such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Kurt Jacobs

We present a computer program for the simulation of Mie scattering in case of arbitrarily large size parameters. The elements of the scattering matrix, efficiency factors as well as the corresponding cross sections, the albedo and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Wolf , N. V. Voshchinnikov

An efficient scheme for one-dimensional extensive air shower simulation and its implementation in the program CONEX are presented. Explicit Monte Carlo simulation of the high-energy part of hadronic and electromagnetic cascades in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 T. Bergmann , R. Engel , D. Heck , N. N. Kalmykov , S. Ostapchenko , T. Pierog , T. Thouw , K. Werner

In this study, we demonstrate a sequential experimental design for spectral measurements by active learning using parametric models as predictors. In spectral measurements, it is necessary to reduce the measurement time because of sample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Tomohiro Nabika , Kenji Nagata , Shun Katakami , Masaichiro Mizumaki , Masato Okada

Here we present the derivation, description and results of a Monte Carlo-based algorithm for simulating inelastic scattering of photo-electrons when passing through some scattering medium, such as a gas atmosphere or a solid material. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-06 Lukas Pielsticker , Robert Schlögl , Mark Greiner

The subject of the present study is the Monte Carlo path-integral evaluation of the moments of spectral functions. Such moments can be computed by formal differentiation of certain estimating functionals that are infinitely-differentiable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Cristian Predescu

We introduce a Monte Carlo method, as a modification of existing cluster algorithms, which allows simulations directly on systems of infinite size, and for quantum models also at beta=infinity. All two-point functions can be obtained,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. G. Evertz , W. von der Linden

Existing color sampling based alpha matting methods use the compositing equation to estimate alpha at a pixel from pairs of foreground (F) and background (B) samples. The quality of the matte depends on the selected (F,B) pairs. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Jubin Johnson , Ehsan Shahrian Varnousfaderani , Hisham Cholakkal , Deepu Rajan

The paper presents an investigation of estimating treatment effect using different matching methods. The study proposed a new method which is computationally efficient and convenient in implication-'largest caliper matching' and compared…

Applications · Statistics 2018-06-07 Sharif Mahmood

We introduce an efficient approach to implement correlated many-body trial wave functions in auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC). To control the sign/phase problem in AFQMC, a constraint is derived from an exact gauge condition but…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-27 Zhi-Yu Xiao , Zixiang Lu , Yixiao Chen , Tao Xiang , Shiwei Zhang

The high resolution spectrograph ESPRESSO on the VLT allows measurements of fundamental constants at unprecedented precision and hence enables tests for spacetime variations predicted by some theories. In a series of recent papers, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Chung-Chi Lee , John K. Webb , Robert F. Carswell , Vladimir A. Dzuba , Victor V. Flambaum , Dinko Milaković

The ratio of the symmetry energy coefficient to temperature, $a_sym/T$, in Fermi energy heavy ion collisions, has been experimentally extracted as a function of the fragment atomic number using isoscaling parameters and the variance of the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-11-20 Z. Chen , S. Kowalski , M. Huang , R. Wada , T. Keutgen , K. Hagel , J. Wang , L. Qin , J. B. Natowitz , T. Materna , P. K. Sahu , A. Bonasera

We describe a new software package for simulating channelised, high-time resolution data streams from radio telescopes. The software simulates data from the telescope and observing system taking into account the observation strategy,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-09 Rui Luo , George Hobbs , Suk Yee Yong , Andrew Zic , Lawrence Toomey , Shi Dai , Alex Dunning , Di Li , Tommy Marshman , Chen Wang , Pei Wang , Shuangqiang Wang , Songbo Zhang

Compressive spectral imaging (CSI) has emerged as an attractive compression and sensing technique, primarily to sense spectral regions where traditional systems result in highly costly such as in the near-infrared spectrum. Recently, it has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Jorge Bacca , Alejandra Hernandez-Rojas , Henry Arguello