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The behaviour of the one--dimensional random--forced Burgers equation is investigated in the path integral formalism, using a discrete space--time lattice. We show that by means of Monte Carlo methods one may evaluate observables, such as…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-01-14 P. Düben , D. Homeier , K. Jansen , D. Mesterhazy , G. Münster , C. Urbach

We present full quantum statistical energetics of some electron-light nuclei systems. This is accomplished with the path integral Monte Carlo method. The effects on energetics arising from the change in the nuclear mass are studied. The…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Ilkka Kylänpää , Tapio T. Rantala , David M. Ceperley

In computer simulations, quantum delocalization of atomic nuclei can be modeled making use of the Path Integral (PI) formulation of quantum statistical mechanics. This approach, however, comes with a large computational cost. By restricting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-13 Karsten Kreis , Mark E. Tuckerman , Davide Donadio , Kurt Kremer , Raffaello Potestio

Path integral molecular dynamics simulations, combined with an ab initio evaluation of interactions using electronic structure theory, incorporate the quantum mechanical nature of both the electrons and nuclei, which are essential to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-02-15 Ondrej Marsalek , Thomas E. Markland

We introduce a Path Integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) approach that uses the angular momentum representation for the description of interacting rotor systems. Such a choice of representation allows the calculation of momentum properties without…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Estêvão de Oliveira , Muhammad Shaeer Moeed , Pierre-Nicholas Roy

To minimise systematic errors in Monte Carlo simulations of charged particles, long range electrostatic interactions have to be calculated accurately and efficiently. Standard approaches, such as Ewald summation or the naive application of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 William Robert Saunders , James Grant , Eike Hermann Müller

We use a reactive Monte Carlo simulation method and primitive model of electrolyte to study acid-base equilibrium that controls charge regulation in colloidal systems. The simulations are performed in a semi-grand canonical ensemble in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-12-21 Amin Bakhshandeh , Derek Frydel , Yan Levin

By including elements of the density matrix formalism, the semiclassical ensemble Monte Carlo method for carrier transport is extended to incorporate incoherent tunneling, known to play an important role in quantum cascade lasers (QCLs). In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-17 Christian Jirauschek

A technique for reducing the number of integrals in a Monte Carlo calculation is introduced. For integrations relying on classical or mean-field trajectories with local weighting functions, it is possible to integrate analytically at least…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-17 Jarod Tall , Steven Tomsovic

We propose a new algorithm based on the Metropolis sampling method to perform Monte Carlo integration for path integrals in the recently proposed formulation of quantum field theories on the Lefschetz thimble. The algorithm is based on a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-10-02 Abhishek Mukherjee , Marco Cristoforetti , Luigi Scorzato

A Monte Carlo method is presented to evaluate quantum states with many particles moving in the continuum. The scattering state is generated at each time by a Monte Carlo random sampling algorithm. The same calculation are repeated until the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-06-06 Zhen-Xiang Xu , Chong Qi

We present a quantum Monte Carlo method capable of sampling the full density matrix of a many-particle system at finite temperature. This allows arbitrary reduced density matrix elements and expectation values of complicated non-local…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 N. S. Blunt , T. W. Rogers , J. S. Spencer , W. M. C. Foulkes

The results of analytical approximations and extensive calculations based on a path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) scheme are presented. A new (direct) PIMC method allows for a correct determination of thermodynamic properties such as energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Filinov , M. Bonitz , D. Kremp , W. -D. Kraeft , V. Fortov

We describe an embarrassingly parallel, anytime Monte Carlo method for likelihood-free models. The algorithm starts with the view that the stochasticity of the pseudo-samples generated by the simulator can be controlled externally by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-03 Edward Meeds , Max Welling

Metropolis Monte Carlo simulation is a powerful tool for studying the equilibrium properties of matter. In complex condensed-phase systems, however, it is difficult to design Monte Carlo moves with high acceptance probabilities that also…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-05-27 Jerome P. Nilmeier , Gavin E. Crooks , David D. L. Minh , John D. Chodera

We design an enhanced Event-Chain Monte Carlo algorithm to study 1D quantum dissipative systems, using their bosonized representation. Expressing the bosonized Hamiltonian as a path integral over a scalar field enables the application of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-21 Oscar Bouverot-Dupuis , Alberto Rosso , Manon Michel

The accurate description of non-ideal quantum many-body systems is of prime importance for a host of applications within physics, quantum chemistry, material science, and related disciplines. At finite temperatures, the gold standard is…

A path-integral hybrid Monte Carlo approach with enveloping bridging potentials (PIHMC-EBP) is proposed for calculating numerically exact tunneling splittings in molecular systems. The central idea is to construct an approximately…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Yu-Chen Wang , Jeremy O. Richardson

Warm dense matter (WDM) is an active field of research, with applications ranging from astrophysics to inertial confinement fusion. Ionization degree and continuum lowering are important quantities to understand how materials behave under…

We present a Monte Carlo simulation technique by which the free energy of disordered systems can be computed directly. It is based on thermodynamic integration. The central idea is to construct an analytically solvable reference system from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Tanja Schilling , Friederike Schmid