Parallel tempered Bayesian inference for characterizing non-ideal semiconductors: Carrier trapping in cadmium telluride thin films by Calvin Fai, Anthony J.C. Ladd, Charles J. Hages, Gregory A. Manoukian, Jason B. Baxter

“…Summary: We describe an improved Bayesian inference methodology to characterize photovoltaic materials by matching charge carrier simulations to spectroscopy data. A “parallel tempering” scheme is introduced, which efficiently and reliably locates the global maximum in the complex multimodal distributions that are characteristic of cadmium telluride (CdTe) films. …”
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Noise-augmented chaotic Ising machines for combinatorial optimization and sampling by Kyle Lee, Shuvro Chowdhury, Kerem Y. Camsari

“…Finally, we propose a noise-augmented c-bit approach via the adaptive parallel tempering algorithm (APT), which outperforms fully deterministic c-bits running simulated annealing. …”
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Efficient Trans-Dimensional Bayesian Inversion of C-Response Data from Geomagnetic Observatory and Satellite Magnetic Data by Rongwen Guo, Shengqi Tian, Jianxin Liu, Yi-an Cui, Chuanghua Cao

“…Within the trans-D Bayesian algorithm, the model parameter is perturbated in the principal-component parameter space to minimize the effect of inter-parameter correlations and improve the sampling efficiency. A parallel tempering scheme is applied to guarantee the complete sampling of the multiple model space. …”
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