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Symplectic integration algorithms have become popular in recent years in long-term orbital integrations because these algorithms enforce certain conservation laws that are intrinsic to Hamiltonian systems. For problems with large variations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Man Hoi Lee , Martin J. Duncan , Harold F. Levison

While the construction of symplectic integrators for Hamiltonian dynamics is well understood, an analogous general theory for Poisson integrators is still lacking. The main challenge lies in overcoming the singular and non-linear geometric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-09 Alejandro Cabrera , David Martín de Diego , Miguel Vaquero

Optimization tasks are crucial in statistical machine learning. Recently, there has been great interest in leveraging tools from dynamical systems to derive accelerated and robust optimization methods via suitable discretizations of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-06 Guilherme França , Alessandro Barp , Mark Girolami , Michael I. Jordan

Many important physical systems can be described as the evolution of a Hamiltonian system, which has the important property of being conservative, that is, energy is conserved throughout the evolution. Physics Informed Neural Networks and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Harsh Choudhary , Chandan Gupta , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Melvin Leok , Georgios Korpas

We introduce a recent symplectic integration scheme derived for solving physically motivated systems with non-separable Hamiltonians. We show its relevance to Riemannian manifold Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (RMHMC) and provide an alternative to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-15 Adam D. Cobb , Atılım Güneş Baydin , Andrew Markham , Stephen J. Roberts

Symplectic integrators that preserve the geometric structure of Hamiltonian flows and do not exhibit secular growth in energy errors are suitable for the long-term integration of N-body Hamiltonian systems in the solar system. However, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-02 Ying Wang , Wei Sun , Fuyao Liu , Xin Wu

Hybrid symplectic integrators such as MERCURY are widely used to simulate complex dynamical phenomena in planetary dynamics that could otherwise not be investigated. A hybrid integrator achieves high accuracy during close encounters by…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-18 Hanno Rein , David M. Hernandez , Daniel Tamayo , Garett Brown , Emily Eckels , Emma Holmes , Michelle Lau , Rejean Leblanc , Ari Silburt

A new method is proposed for integrating the equations of motion of an elastic filament. In the standard finite-difference and finite-element formulations the continuum equations of motion are discretized in space and time, but it is then…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anthony JC Ladd , Gaurav Misra

In this work we propose a new numerical approach to distinguish between regular and chaotic orbits in Hamiltonian systems, based on the simultaneous integration of both the orbit and the deviation vectors using a symplectic scheme, hereby…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-17 Anne-Sophie Libert , Charles Hubaux , Timoteo Carletti

Efficient fourth order symplectic integrators are proposed for numerical integration of separable Hamiltonian systems H(p,q)=T(p)+V(q). Symmetric splitting coefficients with five to nine stages are obtained by higher order decomposition of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-10 Kristian Mads Egeris Nielsen

It is well known that symplectic integrators lose their near energy preservation properties when variable step sizes are used. The most common approach to combine adaptive step sizes and symplectic integrators involves the Poincar\'e…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-25 Valentin Duruisseaux , Jeremy Schmitt , Melvin Leok

We present initial results on Hessian-free force-gradient integrators for lattice field theories. Integrators of this framework promise to provide substantial performance enhancements, particularly for larger lattice volumes where…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-01-30 Kevin Schäfers , Jacob Finkenrath , Michael Günther , Francesco Knechtli

We propose explicit symplectic integrators of molecular dynamics (MD) algorithms for rigid-body molecules in the canonical and isothermal-isobaric ensembles. We also present a symplectic algorithm in the constant normal pressure and lateral…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hisashi Okumura , Satoru G. Itoh , Yuko Okamoto

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo is a prominent Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm, which employs symplectic integrators to sample from high dimensional target distributions in many applications, such as statistical mechanics, Bayesian statistics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Geoffrey McGregor , Andy T. S. Wan

Geometric aspects play an important role in the construction and analysis of structure-preserving numerical methods for a wide variety of ordinary and partial differential equations. Here we review the development and theory of symplectic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-12 Ludwig Gauckler , Ernst Hairer , Christian Lubich

Most numerical integration algorithms are not designed specifically for Hamiltonian systems and do not respect their characteristic properties, which include the preservation of phase space volume with time. This can lead to spurious…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 David JD Earn

We report a few sumerical tests comparing some newly defined energy-preserving integrators and symplectic methods, using either constant and variable stepsize.

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-09-30 Luigi Brugnano , Felice Iavernaro , Donato Trigiante

Symplectic integrators constructed from Hamiltonian and Lie formalisms are obtained as symplectic maps whose flow follows the exact solution of a "sourrounded" Hamiltonian K = H + h^k H_1. Those modified Hamiltonians depends virtually on…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-01-04 Hugo Jiménez-Pérez

We present a set of new, efficient high-order symplectic methods designed for Hamiltonian systems with cubic or quartic potentials. By demonstrating that polynomial potentials require fewer order conditions, we develop schemes that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Alejandro Escorihuela-Tomàs

We propose a linearly implicit structure-preserving numerical method for semilinear Hamiltonian systems with polynomial nonlinearities, combining Kahan's method and exponential integrator. This approach efficiently balances computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Pan Zhang , Fengyang Xiao , Lu Li