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It has been shown that contact geometry is the proper framework underlying classical thermodynamics and that thermodynamic fluctuations are captured by an additional metric structure related to Fisher's Information Matrix. In this work we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-08-27 A. Bravetti , C. S. Lopez-Monsalvo , F. Nettel

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

A general formalism is developed for constructing modified Hamiltonian dynamical systems which preserve a canonical equilibrium distribution by adding a time evolution equation for a single additional thermostat variable. When such systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-09 John D. Ramshaw

In this article, we continue the program started in our previous article of exploring an important class of thermodynamic systems from a geometric point of view. In order to model the time evolution of systems verifying the two laws of…

A didactic description of the thermodynamic properties of classical spin systems is given in terms of their quantum counterpart in the Hamiltonian limit. Emphasis is on the construction of the relevant Hamiltonian, and the calculation of…

Physics Education · Physics 2009-11-11 Bertrand Berche , Alexander Lopez

These are pedagogical notes on the Hamiltonian formulation of constrained dynamical systems. All the examples are finite dimensional, field theories are not covered, and the notes could be used by students for a preliminary study before the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-24 Brian P. Dolan

Dissipation can be represented in Hamiltonian mechanics in an extended phase space as a symplectic process. The method uses an auxiliary variable which represents the excitation of unresolved dynamics and a Hamiltonian for the interaction…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-02-16 Richard Blender , Gualtiero Badin

Hamiltonian systems are differential equations which describe systems in classical mechanics, plasma physics, and sampling problems. They exhibit many structural properties, such as a lack of attractors and the presence of conservation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Christian Offen , Sina Ober-Blöbaum

The action for a class of three-dimensional dilaton-gravity theories, with an electromagnetic Maxwell field and a cosmological constant, can be recast in a Brans-Dicke-Maxwell type action, with its free $\omega$ parameter. For a negative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-23 Gonçalo A. S. Dias , José P. S. Lemos

This work deals with the physical system governed by a Hamiltonian operator, in two-dimensional space, of spinless charged particles subject to a perpendicular magnetic field B, coupled with a harmonic potential in the context of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-30 Bienvenu Gnim Adewi , Isiaka Aremua , Laure Gouba

We present a new dynamical approach for measuring the temperature of a Hamiltonian dynamical system in the micro canonical ensemble of thermodynamics. We show that under the hypothesis of ergodicity the temperature can be computed as a…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-30 Hans Henrik Rugh

There are problems with defining the thermodynamic limit of systems with long-range interactions; as a result, the thermodynamic behavior of these types of systems is anomalous. In the present work, we review some concepts from both…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. A. del Pino , P. Troncoso , S. Curilef

On general symplectic manifolds we describe a correspondence between symplectic transformations and their phase functions. On the quantum level, this is a correspondence between unitary operators and phase functions of the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mikhail Karasev

This work presents two novel approaches for the symplectic model reduction of high-dimensional Hamiltonian systems using data-driven quadratic manifolds. Classical symplectic model reduction approaches employ linear symplectic subspaces for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-25 Harsh Sharma , Hongliang Mu , Patrick Buchfink , Rudy Geelen , Silke Glas , Boris Kramer

We propose a metriplectic reformulation of Lagrangian variational formulations for non-equilibrium thermodynamics. We prove that solutions to these constrained variational principles can be generated by the sum of a classic Poisson bracket…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Valentin Carlier

Building on the fundamental equation, this study revisits key thermodynamic concepts in a cohesive and innovative manner. It demonstrates the consistency of thermodynamic theory while addressing and clarifying common misconceptions and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-04 Joaquim Anacleto

The Hamiltonian dynamics associated to classical, planar, Heisenberg XY models is investigated for two- and three-dimensional lattices. Besides the conventional signatures of phase transitions, here obtained through time averages of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Cerruti-Sola , C. Clementi , M. Pettini

We present the Dirac Hamiltonian formalism for a pair of $1$-form fields with a topological-like potential coupled to first-order gravity in three-dimensional spacetime. By considering the complete phase space, we derive the full structure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Omar Rodríguez-Tzompantzi

We discuss a general prototypical constrained Hamiltonian system with a broad application in quantum field theory and similar contexts where dynamics is defined through a functional action obeying a stationarity principle. The prototypical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-04 Ignacio S. Gomez , Vipul Kumar Pandey , Ronaldo Thibes

This work develops a symplectic framework for quantum computing to be applied to classical Hamiltonian systems, exploiting the intrinsic geometric compatibility between unitary quantum evolution and symplectic phase-space dynamics in a…