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Binghong Li

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A linear mass-lumped finite element method for the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation: unconditional energy dissipation and length preservation

We develop a linear, unconditionally energy-dissipative, mass-lumped finite element method for the highly nonlinear Landau--Lifshitz--Gilbert (LLG) equation on quasi-uniform triangular meshes. The method is built on a projection strategy for enforcing the nonconvex pointwise constraint $|\mathbf{m}| = 1$, whose simultaneous preservation with unconditional energy stability remains challenging for standard finite element discretizations. The key innovation is a unified hybrid finite element-finite difference framework that underlies both the design and the analysis of the proposed method. In the scheme construction, we exploit the weak formulation and nodal structure of mass-lumped finite element method, while incorporating suitable interpolation operators and a node-wise length-preserving mechanism inspired by finite difference discretizations. This combination yields a linear scheme that preserves the node-wise unit-length constraint and satisfies a discrete energy dissipation law. The same hybrid framework also plays a central role in the error analysis, where the weak formulation and quasi-uniform mesh structure of finite elements are combined with interpolation-based and nodewise finite difference method to control the strongly nonlinear damping term and to establish an optimal-order error estimate. More importantly, the proposed method provides a unified framework that systematically integrates the geometric flexibility of finite element method with the pointwise constraint-preserving property of finite difference method, and thus offers a general strategy for designing and analyzing structure-preserving discretizations of constrained dissipative systems. Numerical experiments, including a classical blow-up simulation, confirm the predicted accuracy, energy dissipation, and robustness of the method.

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Stability and error analysis of fully discrete original energy-dissipative and length-preserving scheme for the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation

The Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation, regarded as a gradient flow with manifold constraint, is the fundamental model describing magnetization dynamics in ferromagnetic materials. It is well known that the normalized tangent plane method is able to simultaneously achieve the non-convex manifold constraint and original energy dissipation. However, the associated computational cost of this numerical approach is exceedingly high. By contrast, the projection method is more straightforward to implement, while it often compromises the inherent energy dissipative property of the continuous model, and the error analysis turns out to be even more challenging. In this work, we first construct a linear and fully discrete finite difference numerical scheme, based on the projection method for the LLG equation, which is capable of simultaneously preserving the non-convex manifold constraint \(|\mathbf{m}| = 1\) and an unconditional original energy dissipation. In the error analysis, the classical theoretical technique becomes ineffective, due to the presence of the nonlinear Laplacian term, which in turn poses a significant challenge. To overcome this subtle difficulty, we carefully rewrite the numerical method in an equivalent weak form, in which a point-wise length preserving feature of the numerical solution plays an essential role. As a result of these estimates in the reformulated weak form, an optimal convergence rate could be theoretically established. In our knowledge, this numerical method is the first linear algorithm that preserves the following combined theoretical properties: (i) point-wise length preservation, (ii) unconditional original energy dissipation, (iii) a theoretical justification of convergence analysis and optimal rate error estimate.

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A new class of efficient linear higher-order schemes for the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation with reduced restriction on the damping parameter

Classical high-order backward differentiation formula (BDF) methods for the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation often suffer from restrictive stability constraints, requiring small time steps and imposing stringent lower bounds on the damping parameter. These limitations become particularly severe for schemes of order higher than three. In this paper, we develop a class of high-order generalized BDF (GBDF) schemes for the LLG equation, including both semi-implicit and fully explicit treatments of the gyromagnetic term. The proposed schemes significantly improve stability properties and substantially relax the damping parameter constraints, but introduce essential difficulty in its analysis compared to the classical BDF schemes. We construct a novel multiplier which enables us to carry out a energy-based error analysis. This approach yields optimal-order error estimates under considerably weaker assumptions on the damping parameter than those required for classical BDF schemes. Numerical experiments are presented to confirm the theoretical results, and demonstrate that the proposed GBDF schemes achieve higher accuracy, enhanced stability, and much wider admissible damping regimes compared to classical high-order BDF methods.

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Minimum-Weight Parity Factor Decoder for Quantum Error Correction

Fast and accurate quantum error correction (QEC) decoding is crucial for scalable fault-tolerant quantum computation. Most-Likely-Error (MLE) decoding, while being near-optimal, is intractable on general quantum Low-Density Parity-Check (qLDPC) codes and typically relies on approximation and heuristics. We propose HyperBlossom, a unified framework that formulates MLE decoding as a Minimum-Weight Parity Factor (MWPF) problem and generalizes the blossom algorithm to hypergraphs via a similar primal-dual linear programming model with certifiable proximity bounds. HyperBlossom unifies all the existing graph-based decoders like (Hypergraph) Union-Find decoders and Minimum-Weight Perfect Matching (MWPM) decoder, thus bridging the gap between heuristic and certifying decoders. We implement HyperBlossom in software, namely Hyperion. Hyperion achieves a 4.8x lower logical error rate compared to the MWPM decoder on the distance-11 surface code and 1.6x lower logical error rate compared to a fine-tuned BPOSD decoder on the $[[90, 8, 10]]$ bivariate bicycle code under code-capacity noise. It also achieves an almost-linear average runtime scaling on both the surface code and the color code, with numerical results up to sufficiently large code distances of 99 and 31 for code-capacity noise and circuit-level noise, respectively.

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Robust superconvergence analysis of physics-preserving RMAC scheme for the Stokes and Navier--Stokes equations on non-uniform grids at high Reynolds numbers

The velocity errors of the classical marker and cell (MAC) scheme are dependent on the pressure approximation errors, which is non-pressure-robust and will cause the accuracy of the velocity approximation to deteriorate when the pressure approximation is poor. In this paper, we first propose the reconstructed MAC scheme (RMAC) based on the finite volume method to obtain the pressure-robustness for the time-dependent Stokes equations and then construct the $μ$-robust and physics-preserving RMAC scheme on non-uniform grids for the Navier--Stokes equations, where $μ$-robustness means that the velocity errors do not blow up for small viscosity $μ$ when the true velocity is sufficiently smooth. Compared with the original MAC scheme, which was analyzed in [SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 55 (2017): 1135-1158], the RMAC scheme is different only on the right-hand side for Stokes equations. It can also be proved that the constructed scheme satisfies the local mass conservation law, the discrete unconditional energy dissipation law, the momentum conservation, and the angular momentum conservation for the Stokes and Navier--Stokes equations. Furthermore, by constructing the new auxiliary function depending on the velocity and using the high-order consistency analysis, we can obtain the pressure-robust and $μ$-robust error estimates for the velocity and derive the second-order superconvergence for the velocity and pressure in the discrete $l^{\infty}(l^2)$ norm on non-uniform grids and the discrete $l^{\infty}(l^{\infty})$ norm on uniform grids. Finally, numerical experiments using the constructed schemes are demonstrated to show the robustness for our constructed schemes.

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