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Construction of Simulation Wavefunctions for Aqueous Species: D3O+
This paper investigates Monte Carlo techniques for construction of compact
wavefunctions for the internal atomic motion of the D3O+ ion. The polarization
force field models of Stillinger, et al and of Ojamae, et al. were used.
Initial pair product wavefunctions were obtained from the asymptotic high
temperature many-body density matrix after contraction to atom pairs using
Metropolis Monte Carlo. Subsequent characterization shows these pair product
wavefunctions to be well optimized for atom pair correlations despite that fact
that the predicted zero point energies are too high. The pair product
wavefunctions are suitable to use within variational Monte Carlo, including
excited states, and density matrix Monte Carlo calculations. Together with the
pair product wavefunctions, the traditional variational theorem permits
identification of wavefunction features with significant potential for further
optimization. The most important explicit correlation variable found for the
D3O+ ion was the vector triple product {\bf r}({\bf
r}{\bf r}). Variational Monte Carlo with 9 of such
explicitly correlated functions yielded a ground state wavefunction with an
error of 5-6% in the zero point energy.Comment: 17 pages including 6 figures, typos correcte
Multilevel Monte Carlo simulation for Levy processes based on the Wiener-Hopf factorisation
In Kuznetsov et al. (2011) a new Monte Carlo simulation technique was
introduced for a large family of Levy processes that is based on the
Wiener-Hopf decomposition. We pursue this idea further by combining their
technique with the recently introduced multilevel Monte Carlo methodology.
Moreover, we provide here for the first time a theoretical analysis of the new
Monte Carlo simulation technique in Kuznetsov et al. (2011) and of its
multilevel variant for computing expectations of functions depending on the
historical trajectory of a Levy process. We derive rates of convergence for
both methods and show that they are uniform with respect to the "jump activity"
(e.g. characterised by the Blumenthal-Getoor index). We also present a modified
version of the algorithm in Kuznetsov et al. (2011) which combined with the
multilevel methodology obtains the optimal rate of convergence for general Levy
processes and Lipschitz functionals. This final result is only a theoretical
one at present, since it requires independent sampling from a triple of
distributions which is currently only possible for a limited number of
processes
A New Monte Carlo Method for Time-Dependent Neutrino Radiation Transport
Monte Carlo approaches to radiation transport have several attractive properties compared to deterministic
methods. These include simplicity of implementation, high accuracy, and good parallel scaling. Moreover,
Monte Carlo methods can handle complicated geometries and are relatively easy to extend to multiple spatial
dimensions, which makes them particularly interesting in modeling complex multi-dimensional astrophysical
phenomena such as core-collapse supernovae. The aim of this paper is to explore Monte Carlo methods for
modeling neutrino transport in core-collapse supernovae. We generalize the implicit Monte Carlo photon transport
scheme of Fleck & Cummings and gray discrete-diffusion scheme of Densmore et al. to energy-, time-,
and velocity-dependent neutrino transport. Using our 1D spherically-symmetric implementation, we show that,
similar to the photon transport case, the implicit scheme enables significantly larger timesteps compared with
explicit time discretization, without sacrificing accuracy, while the discrete-diffusion method leads to significant
speed-ups at high optical depth. Our results suggest that a combination of spectral, velocity-dependent,
implicit Monte Carlo and discrete-diffusion Monte Carlo methods represents an attractive approach for use in
neutrino radiation-hydrodynamics simulations of core-collapse supernovae. Our velocity-dependent scheme
can easily be adapted to photon transport
Thermodynamics of a Trapped Unitary Fermi Gas
We present the first model-independent comparison of recent measurements of
the entropy and of the critical temperature of a unitary Fermi gas, performed
by Luo et al., with the most complete results currently available from finite
temperature Monte Carlo calculations. The measurement of the critical
temperature in a cold fermionic atomic cloud is consistent with a value
in the bulk, as predicted by the present authors in
their Monte Carlo calculations.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, published versio
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