Overcoming the numerical sign problem in the Wigner dynamics via adaptive particle annihilation

DOI10.1137/22M1498279MaRDI QIDQ6491576

Sihong Shao, Yunfeng Xiong

Publication date: 24 April 2024

Published in: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Wigner equationbranching random walkCoulomb interactionsign problemparticle annihilationnegative particle method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric statistical resampling methods (62G09) Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Applications of branching processes (60J85) PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

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