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CSE
2012
IEEE
12 years 18 days ago
Accelerating Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of Real Materials on GPU Clusters
—Continuum quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) has proved to be an invaluable tool for predicting the properties of matter from fundamental principles. By solving the manybody Schr¨odinge...
Kenneth Esler, Jeongnim Kim, David M. Ceperley, Lu...
LSSC
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
An Improved Monte Carlo Algorithm for Elastic Electron Backscattering from Surfaces
The problen of the backscattering of electrons from metal targets is subject of extensive theoreticel and experimental work in surface analysis. We are interested in the angular di...
Ivan Dimov, Emanouil I. Atanassov, Mariya K. Durch...
WSC
1997
13 years 6 months ago
Comparison of Monte Carlo and Deterministic Methods for Non-Adaptive Optimization
In this paper we compare the average performance of Monte Carlo methods for global optimization with non-adaptive deterministic alternatives. We analyze the behavior of the algori...
Hisham A. Al-Mharmah, James M. Calvin
FOCS
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Torpid Mixing of Some Monte Carlo Markov Chain Algorithms in Statistical Physics
We study two widely used algorithms, Glauber dynamics and the Swendsen-Wang algorithm, on rectangular subsets of the hypercubic lattice
Christian Borgs, Jennifer T. Chayes, Alan M. Friez...
NAA
2000
Springer
104views Mathematics» more  NAA 2000»
13 years 8 months ago
A Grid Free Monte Carlo Algorithm for Solving Elliptic Boundary Value Problems
In this work a grid free Monte Carlo algorithm for solving elliptic boundary value problems is investigated. The proposed Monte Carlo approach leads to a random process called a ba...
Todor V. Gurov, Paula A. Whitlock, Ivan Dimov