Researchers at Leipzig University have developed a highly efficient method to investigate systems with long-range interactions that were previously puzzling to experts. These systems can be gases or ...

Now, a new method developed by researchers at Northwestern University is using Monte Carlo simulations to extend the capabilities of transmission electron microscopy and answer fundamental questions ...

The algorithm uses a couple of tricks. First, in a Metropolis algorithm, a key step is to propose an update and calculate how it would change the system energy. Thermal fluctuations are incorporated ...

Monte Carlo simulation has emerged as a cornerstone in radiotherapy dosimetry, providing a first-principles approach to modelling the transport of photons, electrons and secondary particles through ...

Process variations and device mismatches profoundly affect the latest ultra-small geometrical processes. Complexity creates additional factors that impact device manufacturing variability, which in ...

With highly specialized instruments, we can see materials on the nanoscale – but we can’t see what many of them do. That limits researchers’ ability to develop new therapeutics and new technologies ...

A physical system is in equilibrium when its macroscopic properties such as pressure or temperature do not change over time. Nonequilibrium processes occur when environmental changes push a system out ...