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Hill's equations are an approximation that is useful in a number of areas of astrophysics including planetary rings and planetesimal disks. We derive a symplectic method for integrating Hill's equations based on a generalized leapfrog. This…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. Quinn , R. P. Perrine , D. C. Richardson , R. Barnes

Common algorithms for computationally simulating Langevin dynamics must discretize the stochastic differential equations of motion. These resulting finite time step integrators necessarily have several practical issues in common:…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-01-31 David A. Sivak , John D. Chodera , Gavin E. Crooks

High-performance computing trends towards many-core systems are expected to continue over the next decade. As a result, parallel-in-time methods, mathematical formulations which exploit additional degrees of parallelism in the time…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Martin Schreiber , Nathanaël Schaeffer , Richard Loft

Modern N-body techniques for planetary dynamics are generally based on symplectic algorithms specially adapted to the Kepler problem. These methods have proven very useful in studying planet formation, but typically require the timestep for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. S. McNeil , R. P. Nelson

We derive a new criterion for estimating characteristic dynamical timescales in N-body simulations. The criterion uses the second, third, and fourth derivatives of particle positions: acceleration, jerk, and snap. It can be used for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-09 Dang Pham , Hanno Rein , David S. Spiegel

We present WHFast, a fast and accurate implementation of a Wisdom-Holman symplectic integrator for long-term orbit integrations of planetary systems. WHFast is significantly faster and conserves energy better than all other Wisdom-Holman…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 Hanno Rein , Daniel Tamayo

Many applications in computational physics that use numerical integrators based on splitting and composition can benefit from the development of optimized algorithms and from choosing the best ordering of terms. The cost in programming and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Robert I McLachlan

By exploiting the error functions of explicit symplectic integrators for solving separable Hamiltonians, I show that it is possible to develop explicit, time-reversible symplectic integrators for solving non-separable Hamiltonians of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 Siu A. Chin

For nonequilibrium steady states, we identify observables whose fluctuations satisfy a general symmetry and for which a new reciprocity relation can be shown. Unlike the situation in recently discussed fluctuation theorems, these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-26 Christian Maes , Maarten H. van Wieren

We present a class of symplectic integrators adapted for the integration of perturbed Hamiltonian systems of the form $H=A+\epsilon B$. We give a constructive proof that for all integer $p$, there exists an integrator with positive steps…

Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 J. Laskar , P. Robutel

We describe an algorithm for long-term planetary orbit integrations, including the dominant post-Newtonian effects, that employs individual timesteps for each planet. The algorithm is symplectic and exhibits short-term errors that are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Prasenjit Saha , Scott Tremaine

A variational framework for accelerated optimization was recently introduced on normed vector spaces and Riemannian manifolds in Wibisono et al. (2016) and Duruisseaux and Leok (2021). It was observed that a careful combination of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Valentin Duruisseaux , Melvin Leok

Time reversal symmetry is studied in a space with noncommutativity of coordinates and noncommutativity of momenta of canonical type. The circular motion is examined as an apparent example of time reversal symmetry breaking in the space. On…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Kh. P. Gnatenko , M. I. Samar , V. M. Tkachuk

Large-scale cosmological simulations are an indispensable tool for modern cosmology. To enable model-space exploration, fast and accurate predictions are critical. In this paper, we show that the performance of such simulations can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 Florian List , Oliver Hahn

In this work, we describe various improved implementations of the mapping approach to surface hopping (MASH) for simulating nonadiabatic dynamics. These include time-reversible and piecewise-continuous integrators, which is only formally…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 J. Amira Geuther , Kasra Asnaashari , Jeremy O. Richardson

We extend the mathematical model based on stochastic differential equations describing the error gained by an atomic clock to the cases of anomalous behavior including jumps and an increase of instability. We prove an exact iterative…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Cristina Zucca , Patrizia Tavella

This article considers Hamiltonian mechanical systems with potential functions admitting jump discontinuities. The focus is on accurate and efficient numerical approximations of their solutions, which will be defined via the laws of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Molei Tao , Shi Jin

The polysymplectic analysis of the Short Pulse Equation known in nonlinear optics is used in order to construct a geometric polysymplectic integrator for it. The proposed scheme turns out to be much more effective than other standard…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-31 Monika E. Pietrzyk , Igor V. Kanatchikov

Many astrophysical simulations involve extreme dynamic range of timescales around 'special points' in the domain (e.g. black holes, stars, planets, disks, galaxies, shocks, mixing interfaces), where processes on small scales couple strongly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-11 Philip F. Hopkins , Elias R. Most

The exponential trapezoidal rule is proposed and analyzed for the numerical integration of semilinear integro-differential equations. Although the method is implicit, the numerical solution is easily obtained by standard fixed-point…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Alexander Ostermann , Nasrin Vaisi