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ArticleEntropy (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Solving Equations of Motion by Using Monte Carlo Metropolis: Novel Method Via Random Paths Sampling and the Maximum Caliber Principle.

Diego González Diaz, Sergio Davis, Sergio Curilef

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Article in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 authors.

Diego González DiazDepartamento de Física, Universidad Católica del Norte, Casilla 1280, Antofagasta, Chile.ORCID 0000-0002-8972-4341
Sergio DavisComisión Chilena de Energía Nuclear, Casilla 188-D, Santiago, Chile.ORCID 0000-0003-2757-332X
Sergio CurilefDepartamento de Física, Universidad Católica del Norte, Casilla 1280, Antofagasta, Chile.

Funding

FONDECYT ANILLO ACT-17210FONDECYT grant 1170834FONDECYT grant 1171127Universidad Catolica del Norte 0004/2019
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A permanent challenge in physics and other disciplines is to solve Euler-Lagrange equations. Thereby, a beneficial investigation is to continue searching for new procedures to perform this task. A novel Monte Carlo Metropolis framework is presented for solving the equations of motion in Lagrangian systems. The implementation lies in sampling the path space with a probability functional obtained by using the maximum caliber principle. Free particle and harmonic oscillator problems are numerically implemented by sampling the path space for a given action by using Monte Carlo simulations. The average path converges to the solution of the equation of motion from classical mechanics, analogously as a canonical system is sampled for a given energy by computing the average state, finding the least energy state. Thus, this procedure can be general enough to solve other differential equations in physics and a useful tool to calculate the time-dependent properties of dynamical systems in order to understand the non-equilibrium behavior of statistical mechanical systems.

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equation of motionleast action principlemaximum caliberMonte Carlo Metropolis

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PMID33286685
PMCPMC7597156

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