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We give an exponentially-accurate normal form for a Lagrangian particle moving in a rotating shallow-water system in the semi-geostrophic limit, which describes the motion in the region of an exponentially-accurate slow manifold (a region…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Colin J Cotter , Sebastian Reich

The paper first discusses theoretically the off-resonance selective excitation method that is dependent on the atomic internal states and used to generate approximately a standard coherent state of harmonic oscillator. The coherent average…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 Xijia Miao

A semiclassical approximation is derived by using a family of wavepackets to map arbitrary wavefunctions into phase space. If the Hamiltonian can be approximated as linear over each individual wavepacket, as often done when presenting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Clay D. Spence

We present an approach to construct appropriate and efficient emulators for Hamiltonian flow maps. Intended future applications are long-term tracing of fast charged particles in accelerators and magnetic plasma confinement configurations.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Katharina Rath , Christopher G. Albert , Bernd Bischl , Udo von Toussaint

Long-term stability studies of nonlinear Hamiltonian systems require symplectic integration algorithms which are both fast and accurate. In this paper, we study a symplectic integration method wherein the symplectic map representing the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Govindan Rangarajan

We propose a variational symplectic numerical method for the time integration of dynamical systems issued from the least action principle. We assume a quadratic internal interpolation of the state and we approximate the action in a small…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-25 François Dubois , Juan Antonio Rojas-Quintero

Studying single-particle dynamics over many periods of oscillations is a well-understood problem solved using symplectic integration. Such integration schemes derive their update sequence from an approximate Hamiltonian, guaranteeing that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Stephen D. Webb

This article is concerned with analytic Hamiltonian dynamical systems in infinite dimension in a neighborhood of an elliptic fixed point. Given a quadratic Hamiltonian, we consider the set of its analytic higher order perturbations. We…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-06-01 Michela Procesi , Laurent Stolovitch

We consider a quantum cosmology with a massless background scalar field $\pb$ and adopt a wave packet as the wave function. This wave packet is a superposition of the WKB form wave functions, each of which has a definite momentum of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Yoshiaki Ohkuwa , Tetsuro Kitazoe

In this work we introduce contact Hamiltonian mechanics, an extension of symplectic Hamiltonian mechanics, and show that it is a natural candidate for a geometric description of non-dissipative and dissipative systems. For this purpose we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Alessandro Bravetti , Hans Cruz , Diego Tapias

It has previously been shown that varying the numerical timestep during a symplectic orbital integration leads to a random walk in energy and angular momentum, destroying the phase space-conserving property of symplectic integrators. Here…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Nathan A. Kaib , Thomas Quinn , Ramon Brasser

We derive semiclassical equations of motion for an accelerated wavepacket in a two-band system. We show that these equations can be formulated in terms of the static band geometry described by the quantum metric. We consider the specific…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 C. Leblanc , G. Malpuech , D. D. Solnyshkov

A trajectory segment in an energy shell, which combines to form a closed curve with a segment in another canonically driven energy shell, adds an oscillatory semiclassical contribution to the smooth classical background of the quantum…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-12 Alfredo M. Ozorio de Almeida

The classical construction of the symplectic structure on the space of geodesic trajectories via Hamiltonian reduction fails in the pseudo-Riemannian setting due to a dimensional mismatch created by the null geodesics. This paper proposes a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Patrick Iglesias-Zemmour

We propose an efficient reconstruction algorithm named the frozen Gaussian grid-point correction (FGGC) for computing the Schr\"odinger equation in the semi-classical regime using the frozen Gaussian approximation (FGA). The FGA has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Lihui Chai , Zili Deng

In this article, we prove the exponential stabilization of the semilinear wave equation with a damping effective in a zone satisfying the geometric control condition only. The nonlinearity is assumed to be subcritical, defocusing and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-12-03 Romain Joly , Camille Laurent

Singular theories, characterised by the presence of degeneracies in their Lagrangian or Hamiltonian descriptions, require the systematic implementation of constraints in order to obtain well-defined dynamics. While the symplectic framework…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Callum Bell , David Sloan

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

Quantized systems whose underlying classical dynamics possess an elaborate mixture of regular and chaotic motion can exhibit rather subtle long-time quantum transport phenomena. In a short wavelength regime where semiclassical theories are…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-05-29 Christoph-Marian Goletz , Frank Grossmann , Steven Tomsovic

In this paper, a symplectic model reduction technique, proper symplectic decomposition (PSD) with symplectic Galerkin projection, is proposed to save the computational cost for the simplification of large-scale Hamiltonian systems while…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Liqian Peng , Kamran Mohseni
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