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We derive the semiclassical limit of the coherent state propagator for systems with two degrees of freedom of which one degree of freedom is canonical and the other a spin. Systems in this category include those involving spin-orbit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. D. Ribeiro , M. A. M. de Aguiar , A. F. R. de Toledo Piza

We present a variational integrator based on the Lobatto quadrature for the time integration of dynamical systems issued from the least action principle. This numerical method uses a cubic interpolation of the states and the action is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-30 François Dubois , Juan Antonio Rojas-Quintero

In this article, we derive and discuss the properties of the symplectic group Sp(2), which arises in Hamiltonian dynamics and ray optics. We show that a symplectic matrix can be written as the product of a symmetric dilation matrix and a…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-26 C. J. McKinstrie , M. V. Kozlov

It is possible to simulate the dynamics of a single spin-$1/2$ ($\mathsf{PT~}$ symmetric) system by conveniently embedding it into a subspace of a larger Hilbert space with unitary dynamics. Our goal is to formulate a many body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Anant V. Varma , Sourin Das

Isospectral flows are abundant in mathematical physics; the rigid body, the the Toda lattice, the Brockett flow, the Heisenberg spin chain, and point vortex dynamics, to mention but a few. Their connection on the one hand with integrable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-20 Milo Viviani

In this work, a kernel-based surrogate for integrating Hamiltonian dynamics that is symplectic by construction and tailored to large prediction horizons is proposed. The method learns a scalar potential whose gradient enters a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Robin Herkert , Tobias Ehring , Bernard Haasdonk

Energy-correction method is proposed as an addition to mainstream integrators for equations of motion of systems of classical spins. This solves the problem of non-conservation of energy in long computations and makes mainstream integrators…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-11-18 Dmitry A. Garanin

Integrals of the Liouville $1$-form, known as the first Poincar\'e integral invariant, provide a computable figure of merit for monitoring the conservation of symplecticity in the numerical integration of Hamiltonian systems. These…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 William Barham , J. W. Burby

We give a construction of completely integrable 4-dimensional Hamiltonian systems with cubic Hamilton functions. Applying to the corresponding pairs of commuting quadratic Hamiltonian vector fields the so called Kahan-Hirota-Kimura…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2017-04-12 Matteo Petrera , Yuri B. Suris

The evolution of any factorized time-reversible symplectic integrators, when applied to the harmonic oscillator, can be exactly solved in a closed form. The resulting modified Hamiltonians demonstrate the convergence of the Lie series…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Siu A. Chin , Sante R. Scuro

We construct integrators to be used in Hamiltonian (or Hybrid) Monte Carlo sampling. The new integrators are easily implementable and, for a given computational budget, may deliver five times as many accepted proposals as standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-25 S. Blanes , M. P. Calvo , F. Casas , J. M. Sanz-Serna

Exterior differential forms with values in the (Kostant's) symplectic spinor bundle on a manifold with a given metaplectic structure are decomposed into invariant subspaces. Projections to these invariant subspaces of a covariant derivative…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-17 Svatopluk Krýsl

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

Following the discrete embedding formalism, we give a new derivation of the mid-point variational integrators as developed by J.M. Wendlandt and J.E. Marsden by defining an adapted order two discrete differential and integral calculus. This…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Jacky Cresson , Rouba Safi

We present and compare different numerical schemes for the integration of the variational equations of autonomous Hamiltonian systems whose kinetic energy is quadratic in the generalized momenta and whose potential is a function of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-17 Ch. Skokos , E. Gerlach

We introduce a class of fourth order symplectic algorithms that are ideal for doing long time integration of gravitational few-body problems. These algorithms have only positive time steps, but require computing the force gradient in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Siu A. Chin , C. R. Chen

We present a canonical form for a symplectic involution $S\in Sp(2g,\mathbb{Z})$, $S^2=1$; the construction is algorithmic. Application is made in the Riemann surface setting.

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-11 H. W. Braden

The paper gives a symplectic-geometric account of semiclassical Gaussian wave packet dynamics. We employ geometric techniques to "strip away" the symplectic structure behind the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation and incorporate it into…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-09-20 Tomoki Ohsawa , Melvin Leok

We re-examine three issues, the Hopf term, fractional spin and the soliton operators, in the 2+1 dimensional O(3) nonlinear sigma model based on the adjoint orbit parameterization (AOP) introduced earlier. It is shown that the Hopf Term is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 Izumi Tsutsui , Masaomi Kimura , Hiroyuki Kobayashi

Using a Newtonian model of the Solar System with all 8 planets, we perform extensive tests on various symplectic integrators of high orders, searching for the best splitting scheme for long term studies in the Solar System. These…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ariadna Farrés , Jacques Laskar , Sergio Blanes , Fernando Casas , Joseba Makazaga , Ander Murua