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Hierarchical code coupling strategies make it possible to combine the results of individual numerical solvers into a self-consistent symplectic solution. We explore the possibility of allowing such a coupling strategy to be non-intrusive.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Simon Portegies Zwart , Inti Pelupessy , Carmen Martinez-Barbosa , Arjen van Elteren , Steve McMillan

We describe a new hybrid N-body/hydrodynamical code based on the particle-mesh (PM) method and the piecewise-parabolic method (PPM) for use in solving problems related to the evolution of large-scale structure, galaxy clusters, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. M. Ricker , S. Dodelson , D. Q. Lamb

Symplectic integrators are the preferred method of solving conservative $N$-body problems in cosmological, stellar cluster, and planetary system simulations because of their superior error properties and ability to compute orbital…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 David M. Hernandez

A new family of methods involving complex coefficients for the numerical integration of differential equations is presented and analyzed. They are constructed as linear combinations of symmetric-conjugate compositions obtained from a basic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-14 Fernando Casas , Alejandro Escorihuela-Tomàs

We introduce energy-preserving integrators for nonholonomic mechanical systems. We will see that the nonholonomic dynamics is completely determined by a triple $({\mathcal D}^*, \Pi, \mathcal{H})$, where ${\mathcal D}^*$ is the dual of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-11 Elena Celledoni , Marta Farré Puiggalí , Eirik Hoel Høiseth , David Martín de Diego

We present an efficient variational integrator for multibody systems. Variational integrators reformulate the equations of motion for multibody systems as discrete Euler-Lagrange (DEL) equations, transforming forward integration into a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Jeongseok Lee , C. Karen Liu , Frank C. Park , Siddhartha S. Srinivasa

We show how the integrators used for the molecular dynamics step of the Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm can be further improved. These integrators not only approximately conserve some Hamiltonian $H$ but conserve exactly a nearby shadow…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-05-30 M. A. Clark , Bálint Joó , A. D. Kennedy , P. J. Silva

Molecular Dynamics method is based on solution of Newtonian differential equations of motion. A new very accurate and efficient time-reversible explicit integrator was derived on the basis of second order Tailor expansion of force. There is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vasilii Zhakhovskii

The goal of this paper is to develop energy-preserving variational integrators for time-dependent mechanical systems with forcing. We first present the Lagrange-d'Alembert principle in the extended Lagrangian mechanics framework and derive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Harsh Sharma , Mayuresh Patil , Craig Woolsey

Numerical integration methods are central to the study of self-gravitating systems, particularly those comprised of many bodies or otherwise beyond the reach of analytical methods. Predictor-corrector schemes, both multi-step methods and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-24 Alexander J. Dittmann

Learning a many-body Hamiltonian from its dynamics is a fundamental problem in physics. In this work, we propose the first algorithm to achieve the Heisenberg limit for learning an interacting $N$-qubit local Hamiltonian. After a total…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Hsin-Yuan Huang , Yu Tong , Di Fang , Yuan Su

There is a growing interest in the conservation of invariants when numerically solving a system of ordinary differential equations. Methods that exactly preserve these quantities in time are known as geometric integrators. In this paper we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Artur Palha , Marc Gerritsma

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

We construct a particle integrator for nonrelativistic particles by means of the splitting method based on the exact flow of the equation of motion of particles in the presence of constant electric and magnetic field. This integrator is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-08-06 Tsunehiko N. Kato , Seiji Zenitani

We developed a Keplerian-based Hamiltonian splitting for solving the gravitational $N$-body problem. This splitting allows us to approximate the solution of a general $N$-body problem by a composition of multiple, independently evolved…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 G. Gonçalves Ferrari , T. Boekholt , S. F. Portegies Zwart

We give a full description of the code NBODY2 for direct integration of the gravitational N-body problem. The method of solution is based on the neighbour scheme of Ahmad & Cohen (1973) which speeds up the force calculation already for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Sverre J. Aarseth

Nonlinear N-body integrable Hamiltonian systems, where N is an arbitrary number, attract the attention of mathematical physicists for the last several decades, following the discovery of some number of these systems. This paper presents a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-12-31 V. Danilov , S. Nagaitsev

A new methodology is developed to integrate numerically the equations of motion for classical many-body systems in molecular dynamics simulations. Its distinguishable feature is the possibility to preserve, independently on the size of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. P. Omelyan , I. M. Mryglod , R. Folk

We propose a novel time stepping method for linear poroelasticity by extending a recent iterative decoupling approach to the second-order case. This results in a two-step scheme with an inner iteration and a relaxation step. We prove…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-20 R. Altmann , M. Deiml

This is the first in a series of papers devoted to fully general-relativistic $N$-body simulations applied to late-time cosmology. The purpose of this paper is to present the combination of a numerical relativity scheme, discretization…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-29 David Daverio , Yves Dirian , Ermis Mitsou