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Some mechanical systems with dissipation can be described within the framework of the so-called contact mechanics: a modified form of the Euler-Lagrange equations stemming from Herglotz's variational principle, which admits a geometric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Xavier Gràcia , Ángel Martínez-Muñoz , Xavier Rivas , Narciso Román-Roy

In this paper, we propose a discrete Hamilton--Jacobi theory for (discrete) Hamiltonian dynamics defined on a (discrete) contact manifold. To this end, we first provide a novel geometric Hamilton--Jacobi theory for continuous contact…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Oğul Esen , Cristina Sardón , Marcin Zajac

These notes are a short introduction to the mathematical theory of open quantum systems. They are meant to serve as an entry point into a broad research area which has applications across the quantum sciences dealing with systems subjected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Marco Merkli , Ángel Neira

By introducing an integration factor to the differential one-form of contact dynamics, equations of motion are derived variationally, and contact Poisson bracket and contact Lagrangian are formulated. Discrete symplectic integrator, named…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-07-15 Kiyoshi Sogo , Shuhei Ohnishi

We describe geometrically contact Lagrangian systems under impulsive forces and constraints, as well as instantaneous nonholonomic constraints which are not uniform along the configuration space. In both situations, the vector field…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-01-24 Leonardo J. Colombo , Manuel de León , Asier López-Gordón

Stochastic contact Hamiltonian systems are a class of important mathematical models, which can describe the dissipative properties with odd dimensions in the stochastic environment. In this article, we investigate the numerical dynamics of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Qingyi Zhan , Jinqiao Duan , Xiaofan Li , Lijin Wang

We propose a conformal generalization of the reversible Vlasov equation of kinetic plasma dynamics, called conformal kinetic theory. In order to arrive at this formalism, we start with the conformal Hamiltonian dynamics of particles and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-11-21 Oğul Esen , Ayten Gezici , Miroslav Grmela , Hasan Gümral , Michal Pavelka , Serkan Sütlü

In this paper we apply the method of Lagrangian descriptors to explore the geometrical structures in phase space that govern the dynamics of dissipative systems. We demonstrate through many classical examples taken from the nonlinear…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-10-04 V. J. García-Garrido , J. García-Luengo

We study a nonequilibrium mean field Ising model in the low temperature phase regime, where metastable equilibrium states develop a cuspidal (spinodal) singularity. We focus on celebrated Glauber dynamics, and design a contact Hamiltonian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Shin-itiro Goto , Shai Lerer , Leonid Polterovich

This article develops a Hamilton--Jacobi theory for non-conservative classical field theories, with particular emphasis on dissipative systems, in the framework of co-oriented k-contact geometry. We introduce evolution k-contact k-vector…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Javier de Lucas , Julia Lange , Xavier Rivas , Cristina Sardón

Accurate and efficient simulation of open quantum systems remains a significant challenge, particularly for Non-Markovian dynamics. We demonstrate the profound utility of expressing the environmental correlation function as a sum of damped…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Gerardo Suárez , Michał Horodecki

This paper explores the relationship between Cartan symmetries, dynamical similarities, and dynamical symmetries in contact Hamiltonian mechanics. By introducing an alternative decomposition of vector fields, we characterize these…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Federico Zadra , Marcello Seri

The entanglement dynamics in a bipartite system consisting of a qubit and a harmonic oscillator interacting only through their coupling with the same bath is studied. The considered model assumes that the qubit is coupled to the bath via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-11 Revanth Badveli , Vinayak Jagadish , S. Akshaya , R. Srikanth , Francesco Petruccione

Quantum dynamics of a general dissipative system investigated by its coupling to a Klein-Gordon type field as the environment by introducing a minimal coupling method. As an example, the quantum dynamics of a damped three dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Kheirandish , A. Amooshahi

Since the 1970s contact geometry has been recognized as an appropriate framework for the geometric formulation of the state properties of thermodynamic systems, without, however, addressing the formulation of non-equilibrium thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-26 Arjan van der Schaft , Bernhard Maschke

This article is devoted to a description of the dynamics of the phase flow of monotone contact Hamiltonian systems. Particular attention is paid to locating the maximal attractor (or repeller), which could be seen as the union of compact…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Liang Jin , Jun Yan

Accurately modeling and predicting complex dynamical systems, particularly those involving force exchange and dissipation, is crucial for applications ranging from fluid dynamics to robotics, but presents significant challenges due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Andrea Testa , Søren Hauberg , Tamim Asfour , Leonel Rozo

In this paper we study the coisotropic reduction in different types of dynamics according to the geometry of the corresponding phase space. The relevance of the coisotropic reduction is motivated by the fact that these dynamics can always…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Manuel de León , Rubén Izquierdo-López

The simulation of out-of-equilibrium dissipative quantum many body systems is a problem of fundamental interest to a number of fields in physics, ranging from condensed matter to cosmology. For unitary systems, tensor network methods have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 Edward Gillman , Federico Carollo , Igor Lesanovsky

We prove that certain non-exact magnetic Hamiltonian systems on products of closed hyperbolic surfaces and with a potential function of large oscillation admit non-constant contractible periodic solutions of energy below the Ma\~n\'e…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-17 Youngjin Bae , Kevin Wiegand , Kai Zehmisch