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Understanding the dynamics of multi--dimensional conservative dynamical systems (Hamiltonian flows or symplectic maps) is a fundamental issue of non-linear science. The Generalized ALignment Index (GALI), which was recently introduced and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-03-26 T. Manos , Ch. Skokos , T. Bountis

Symplectic integrators offer many advantages for the numerical solution of Hamiltonian differential equations, including bounded energy error and the preservation of invariant sets. Two of the central Hamiltonian systems encountered in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 C. Leland Ellison , John M. Finn , Joshua W. Burby , Michael Kraus , Hong Qin , William M. Tang

Retractions maps are used to define a discretization of the tangent bundle of the configuration manifold as two copies of the configuration manifold where the dynamics take place. Such discretization maps can be conveniently lifted to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-03 María Barbero Liñán , David Martín de Diego

Symplectic integration algorithms are well-suited for long-term integrations of Hamiltonian systems because they preserve the geometric structure of the Hamiltonian flow. However, this desirable property is generally lost when adaptive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-20 Miguel Preto , Scott Tremaine

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

Hamiltonian systems are known to conserve the Hamiltonian function, which describes the energy evolution over time. Obtaining a numerical spatio-temporal scheme that accurately preserves the discretized Hamiltonian function is often a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Anand Srinivasan , Jose E. Castillo

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

Solving quaternion kinematical differential equations is one of the most significant problems in the automation, navigation, aerospace and aeronautics literatures. Most existing approaches for this problem neither preserve the norm of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Hong-Yan Zhang , Lu-Sha Zhou , Zi-Hao Wang , Long Ma , Yi-Fan Niu

Given a fluid equation with reduced Lagrangian $l$ which is a functional of velocity $\MM{u}$ and advected density $D$ given in Eulerian coordinates, we give a general method for semidiscretising the equations to give a canonical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Colin Cotter

We show that, when applied to any non-canonical Hamiltonian system, any integrator that is symplectic for canonical Hamiltonian problems is actually conjugate symplectic for the non-canonical structure. This result is useful because it…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-14 Beibei Zhu , Ruili Zhang , Yifa Tang , Xiongbiao Tu

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 suggest a numerical integration procedure for solving the equations of motion of certain classical spin systems which preserves the underlying symplectic structure of the phase space. Such symplectic integrators have been successfully…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robin Steinigeweg , Heinz-Jürgen Schmidt

Symplectic integrators are widely used for long-term integration of conservative astrophysical problems due to their ability to preserve the constants of motion; however, they cannot in general be applied in the presence of nonconservative…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-10 David Tsang , Chad R. Galley , Leo C. Stein , Alec Turner

We explore the construction of new symplectic numerical integration schemes to be used in Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and study their efficiency. Two integration schemes from Blanes et al. (2014), and a new scheme based on optimal acceptance…

Computation · Statistics 2016-08-26 Janne Mannseth , Tore Selland Kleppe , Hans J. Skaug

Explicit and semi-explicit geometric integration schemes for dissipative perturbations of Hamiltonian systems are analyzed. The dissipation is characterized by a small parameter $\epsilon$, and the schemes under study preserve the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Klas Modin , Gustaf Söderlind

The Lyapunov exponents of a chaotic system quantify the exponential divergence of initially nearby trajectories. For Hamiltonian systems the exponents are related to the eigenvalues of a symplectic matrix. We make use of this fact to…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-22 Salman Habib , Robert D. Ryne

We study the phase space dynamics of multi--dimensional symplectic maps, using the method of the Generalized Alignment Index (GALI). In particular, we investigate the behavior of the GALI for a system of N=3 coupled standard maps and show…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-23 T. Manos , Ch. Skokos , T. Bountis

This paper deals with the numerical integration of Hamiltonian systems in which a stiff anharmonic potential causes highly oscillatory solution behavior with solution-dependent frequencies. The impulse method, which uses micro- and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-23 Christian Lubich , Daniel Weiss

A parallel implementation of coupled spin-lattice dynamics in the LAMMPS molecular dynamics package is presented. The equations of motion for both spin only and coupled spin-lattice dynamics are first reviewed, including a detailed account…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-01 J. Tranchida , S. J. Plimpton , P. Thibaudeau , A. P. Thompson

The reader can find in the literature a lot of different techniques to study the dynamics of a given system and also, many suitable numerical integrators to compute them. Notwithstanding the recent work of Maffione et al. (2011a) for…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-21 Luciano A. Darriba , Nicolás P. Maffione , Pablo M. Cincotta , Claudia M. Giordano