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We present a new implementation of the Monte Carlo method to simulate the evolution of star clusters. The major improvement with respect to the previously developed codes is the treatment of the external tidal field taking into account for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 A. Sollima , A. Mastrobuono Battisti

We review a recently devised Monte Carlo simulation method for the direct study of quasi-stationary properties of stochastic processes with an absorbing state. The method is used to determine the static correlation function and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ronald Dickman , Marcelo Martins de Oliveira

Binary-pairing Monte-Carlo methods are widely used in particle-in-cell codes to capture effects of small angle Coulomb collisions. These methods preserve momentum and energy exactly when the simulation particles have equal weights. However,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Justin Ray Angus , Yichen Fu , Vasily Geyko , Dave Grote , David Larson

The importance-sampling Monte Carlo algorithm appears to be the universally optimal solution to the problem of sampling the state space of statistical mechanical systems according to the relative importance of configurations for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-06-22 Martin Weigel

A numerical method using implicit surface representations is proposed to solve the linearized Poisson-Boltzmann equations that arise in mathematical models for the electrostatics of molecules in solvent. The proposed method used an implicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Yimin Zhong , Kui Ren , Richard Tsai

A model for two-dimensional colloids confined laterally by "structured boundaries" (i.e., ones that impose a periodicity along the slit) is studied by Monte Carlo simulations. When the distance D between the confining walls is reduced at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-09 Dorothea Wilms , Nigel B. Wilding , Kurt Binder

Kinetic equations model distributions of particles in position-velocity phase space. Often, one is interested in studying the long-time behavior of particles in high-collisional regimes in which an approximate (advection)-diffusion model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Emil Løvbak , Giovanni Samaey , Stefan Vandewalle

Tempering is a popular tool in Bayesian computation, being used to transform a posterior distribution $p_1$ into a reference distribution $p_0$ that is more easily approximated. Several algorithms exist that start by approximating $p_0$ and…

Computation · Statistics 2025-09-16 Mengxin Xi , Zheyang Shen , Marina Riabiz , Nicolas Chopin , Chris J. Oates

Diffusion models enable the synthesis of highly accurate samples from complex distributions and have become foundational in generative modeling. Recently, they have demonstrated significant potential for solving Bayesian inverse problems by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yazid Janati , Alain Durmus , Jimmy Olsson , Eric Moulines

We propose numerical schemes that enable the application of particle methods for advection problems in general bounded domains. These schemes combine particle fields with Cartesian tensor product splines and a fictitious domain approach.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Matthias Kirchhart

Fractal Interpolation has been proposed in the literature as an efficient way to construct closure models for the numerical solution of coarse-grained Navier-Stokes equations. It is based on synthetically generating a scale-invariant…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-16 Sukanta Basu , Efi Foufoula-Georgiou , Fernando Porté-Agel

While boundary plasmas in present-day tokamaks generally fall in a fluid regime, neutral species near the boundary often require kinetic models due to long mean-free-paths compared to characteristic spatial scales in the region. Monte-Carlo…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-01-31 Gregory J. Parker , Maxim V. Umansky , Benjamin D. Dudson

We address the computation of ground-state properties of chemical systems and realistic materials within the auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo method. The phase constraint to control the fermion phase problem requires the random walks in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-28 Mario Motta , Shiwei Zhang

Generative diffusions are a powerful class of Monte Carlo samplers that leverage bridging Markov processes to approximate complex, high-dimensional distributions, such as those found in image processing and language models. Despite their…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-20 Zheng Zhao , Ziwei Luo , Jens Sjölund , Thomas B. Schön

Radial basis functions are a common mathematical tool used to construct a smooth interpolating function from a set of data points. A spatial prior based on thin-plate spline radial basis functions can be easily implemented resulting in a…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-06-14 Gentry White , Dongchu Sun , Paul Speckman

A propagator-based approach is investigated for Monte-Carlo (MC) modeling of neutral particles transport in fusion boundary plasmas. The propagator is essentially a Green function for the neutral kinetic equation, which depends on the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 M. V. Umansky , G. J. Parker , R. D. Smirnov

We perform numerical studies including Monte Carlo simulations of high rotational symmetry random tilings. For computational convenience, our tilings obey fixed boundary conditions in regular polygons. Such tilings are put in correspondence…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-10 M. Widom , N. Destainville , R. Mosseri , F. Bailly

We demonstrate the feasibility of performing sufficient configurational sampling of disordered oxides directly from first principles without resorting to the use of fitted models such as cluster expansion. This is achieved by harnessing the…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-01-30 Shusuke Kasamatsu , Osamu Sugino

In this paper we design a neural interpolation operator to improve the boundary data for regional weather models, which is a challenging problem as we are required to map multi-scale dynamics between grid resolutions. In particular, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 James Jackaman , Oliver Sutton

We present a method of deriving two boundary conditions at a thin membrane for diffusion from experimental data. This method can be really useful in complex membrane systems in which we do not know mechanisms of processes occurring within…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-01 Katarzyna D. Lewandowska , Tadeusz Kosztołowicz