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The leapfrog integrator is widely used because of its excellent stability in molecular dynamics simulation. This is recognized as being due to the existence of a discrete variational structure of the equations. We introduce a modified…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. C. Maggs

We develop a geometric version of the inverse problem of the calculus of variations for discrete mechanics and constrained discrete mechanics. The geometric approach consists of using suitable Lagrangian and isotropic submanifolds. We also…

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A variational formulation for non-equilibrium thermodynamics was developed by Gay-Balmaz and Yoshimura. In a recent article, the first two authors of the present paper introduced partially cosymplectic structures as a geometric framework…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Jaime Bajo , Manuel de León , Asier López-Gordón

We present a structure-preserving scheme based on a recently-proposed mixed formulation for incompressible hyperelasticity formulated in principal stretches. Although there exist Hamiltonians introduced for quasi-incompressible…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Jiashen Guan , Hongyan Yuan , Ju Liu

The motion of a rigid body in a quadratic potential is an important example of an integrable Hamiltonian system on a dual to a semidirect product Lie algebra so(n) x Symm(n). We give a Lagrangian derivation of the corresponding equations of…

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We consider minimum energy optimal control problem with time dependent Lagrangian on the nonholonomic integrator and and find the analytical solution using Sturm-Liouville theory. Furthermore, we also consider the minimum energy problem on…

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Geometric integrators of the Schr\"{o}dinger equation conserve exactly many invariants of the exact solution. Among these integrators, the split-operator algorithm is explicit and easy to implement, but, unfortunately, is restricted to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-26 Seonghoon Choi , Jiří Vaníček

We design a novel, exactly energy-conserving implicit non-symplectic integration method for an eight-dimensional Hamiltonian system with four degrees of freedom. In our algorithm, each partial derivative of the Hamiltonian with respect to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-30 Shiyang Hu , Xin Wu , Guoqing Huang , Enwei Liang

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) improves the computational efficiency of the Metropolis algorithm by reducing its random walk behavior. Riemannian Manifold HMC (RMHMC) further improves HMC's performance by exploiting the geometric properties…

Computation · Statistics 2015-06-22 Shiwei Lan , Vassilios Stathopoulos , Babak Shahbaba , Mark Girolami

We present a structure-preserving discretization of the hybrid magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)-driftkinetic system for simulations of low-frequency wave-particle interactions. The model equations are derived from a variational principle,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Byung Kyu Na , Stefan Possanner , Xin Wang

In this paper, we apply the Boole discrete line integral to solve the Lorentz force system which is written as a non-canonical Hamiltonian system. The method is exactly energy-conserving for polynomial Hamiltonians of degree $\nu \leq 4$.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Haochen Li , Yushun Wang

A path integral formalism for non-equilibrium systems is proposed based on a manifold of quasi-equilibrium densities. A generalized Boltzmann principle is used to weight manifold paths with the exponential of minus the information…

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The celebrated problem of a non-homogeneous sphere rolling over a horizontal plane was proved to be integrable and was reduced to quadratures by Chaplygin. Applying the formalism of variational integrators (discrete Lagrangian systems) with…

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We develop the equations of motion for full body models that describe the dynamics of rigid bodies, acting under their mutual gravity. The equations are derived using a variational approach where variations are defined on the Lie group of…

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In this work we introduce a geometric integrator for molecular dynamics simulations of physical systems in the canonical ensemble. In particular, we consider the equations arising from the so-called density dynamics algorithm with any…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Diego Tapias , David P. Sanders , Alessandro Bravetti

In this work, the benefits of the phase fitting technique are embedded in high order discrete Lagrangian integrators. The proposed methodology creates integrators with zero phase lag in a test Lagrangian in a similar way used in phase…

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This paper formulates variational integrators for finite element discretizations of deformable bodies with heat conduction in the form of finite speed thermal waves. The cornerstone of the construction consists in taking advantage of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-03-18 Pablo Mata A , Adrian J Lew

In nonholonomic mechanics, the presence of constraints in the velocities breaks the well-under\-stood link between symmetries and first integrals of holonomic systems, expressed in Noether's Theorem. However there is a known special class…

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