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When simulating molecular systems using deterministic equations of motion (e.g., Newtonian dynamics), such equations are generally numerically integrated according to a well-developed set of algorithms that share commonly agreed-upon…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-08-08 David A. Sivak , John D. Chodera , Gavin E. Crooks

Adiabatic quantum computing is a general framework for preparing eigenstates of Hamiltonians on quantum devices. However, its digital implementation requires an efficient Hamiltonian simulation subroutine, which may introduce extra…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Dong An , Pedro C. S. Costa , Dominic W. Berry

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

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

The $N$-body problem is of historical significance because it was the first implementation of the Newtonian dynamical laws for the description of our Solar System. Motivated by this, the project's goal is to revisit this problem for small…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-08 Achilleas Mavrakis , Konstantinos Kritos

The conservation of energy, linear momentum and angular momentum are important drivers for our physical understanding of the evolution of the Universe. These quantities are also conserved in Newton's laws of motion under gravity…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Simon Portegies Zwart , Tjarda Boekholt

We consider the dynamics of a parabolic and a hyperbolic equation coupled on a common interface and develop time-stepping schemes that can use different time-step sizes for each of the subproblems. The problem is formulated in a strongly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Martyna Soszynska , Thomas Richter

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 new symplectic integrator designed for collisional gravitational $N$-body problems which makes use of Kepler solvers. The integrator is also reversible and conserves 9 integrals of motion of the $N$-body problem to machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-03 David M. Hernandez , Edmund Bertschinger

$N$-body simulations study the dynamics of $N$ particles under the influence of mutual long-distant forces such as gravity. In practice, $N$-body codes will violate Newton's third law if they use either an approximate Poisson solver or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-01 Qirong Zhu

The SecularMultiple code, presented in two previous papers of this series, integrates the long-term dynamical evolution of multiple systems with any number of bodies and hierarchical structure, provided that the system is composed of nested…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Adrian S. Hamers

We introduce an explicit, adaptive time-stepping scheme for the simulation of SPDEs with one-sided Lipschitz drift coefficients. Strong convergence rates are proven for the full space-time discretisation with multiplicative trace-class…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Stuart Campbell , Gabriel Lord

We study the convergence behavior of the stochastic heavy-ball method with a small stepsize. Under a change of time scale, we approximate the discrete method by a stochastic differential equation that models small random perturbations of a…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-21 Wenqing Hu , Chris Junchi Li , Xiang Zhou

In recent decades, there have been many attempts to construct symplectic integrators with variable time steps, with rather disappointing results. In this paper we identify the causes for this lack of performance, and find that they fall…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 A S Richardson , J M Finn

The exploitation of space group symmetries in numerical calculations of periodic crystalline solids accelerates calculations and provides physical insight. We present results for a space-group symmetry adaptation of electronic structure…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Xinyang Dong , Emanuel Gull

It is known in \cite{beccari} that the standard explicit Euler-type scheme (such as the exponential Euler and the linear-implicit Euler schemes) with a uniform timestep, though computationally efficient, may diverge for the stochastic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Chuchu Chen , Tonghe Dang , Jialin Hong

In this work, we revisit the adaptive L1 time-stepping scheme for solving the time-fractional Allen-Cahn equation in the Caputo's form. The L1 implicit scheme is shown to preserve a variational energy dissipation law on arbitrary nonuniform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Hong-lin Liao , Xiaohan Zhu , Jindi Wang

For the iterative decoupling of elliptic-parabolic problems such as poroelasticity, we introduce time discretization schemes up to order $5$ based on the backward differentiation formulae. Its analysis combines techniques known from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Robert Altmann , Abdullah Mujahid , Benjamin Unger

A space-time fully adaptive multiresolution method for evolutionary non-linear partial differential equations is presented introducing an improved local time-stepping method. The space discretisation is based on classical finite volumes,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Müller Moreira Lopes , Margarete Oliveira Domingues , Kai Schneider , Odim Mendes

The nonlinear gyrokinetic equations describe plasma turbulence in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas. To solve these equations, massively parallel codes have been developed and run on present-day supercomputers. This paper describes…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-03-31 H. Doerk , F. Jenko