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We perform a microcanonical study of classical lattice phi^4 field models in 3 dimensions with O(n) symmetries. The Hamiltonian flows associated to these systems that undergo a second order phase transition in the thermodynamic limit are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 Lando Caiani , Lapo Casetti , Cecilia Clementi , Giulio Pettini , Marco Pettini , Raoul Gatto

We provide new insights into the contact Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formulations of dissipative mechanical systems. In particular, we state a new form of the contact dynamical equations, and we review two recently presented Lagrangian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 Jordi Gaset , Xavier Gràcia , Miguel C. Muñoz-Lecanda , Xavier Rivas , Narciso Román-Roy

We propose a geometrical approach to the investigation of Hamiltonian systems on (Pseudo) Riemannian manifolds. A new geometrical criterion of instability and chaos is proposed. This approach is more generic than well known reduction to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Kocharyan

Starting from a contact Hamiltonian description of Li\'enard systems, we introduce a new family of explicit geometric integrators for these nonlinear dynamical systems. Focusing on the paradigmatic example of the van der Pol oscillator, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-08 Federico Zadra , Alessandro Bravetti , Marcello Seri

Equilibrium statistics of Hamiltonian systems is correctly described by the microcanonical ensemble. Classically this is the manifold of all points in the N-body phase space with the given total energy. Due to Boltzmann's principle,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. H. E. Gross

Thermal contact is the archetype of non-equilibrium processes driven by constant non-equilibrium constraints when the latter are enforced by reservoirs exchanging conserved microscopic quantities. At a mesoscopic scale only the energies of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-30 Michel Bauer , Françoise Cornu

A key objective in nuclear and high-energy physics is to describe nonequilibrium dynamics of matter, e.g., in the early universe and in particle colliders, starting from the Standard Model. Classical-computing methods, via the framework of…

This document contains a description of physics entirely based on a geometric presentation: all of the theory is described giving only a pseudo-riemannian manifold (M, g) of dimension n > 5 for which the g tensor is, in studied domains,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-17 Michel Vaugon

In this paper we find connection between the Hofer's metric of the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms of a closed symplectic manifold, with an integral symplectic form, and the geometry, defined in a paper by Eliashberg and Polterovich,…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Gabi Ben Simon

Ab initio thermodynamics is a widespread, computationally efficient approach to predict the stable configuration of a surface in contact with a surrounding (gas or liquid) environment. In a prevalent realization of this approach, this…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Hendrik H. Heenen , Karsten Reuter

If $\eta$ is a contact form on a manifold $M$ such that the orbits of the Reeb vector field form a simple foliation $\mathcal{F}$ on $M$, then the presymplectic 2-form $d\eta$ on $M$ induces a symplectic structure $\omega$ on the quotient…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-04 Katarzyna Grabowska , Janusz Grabowski , Marek Kuś , Giuseppe Marmo

We assume that markovian dynamics on a finite graph enjoys a gauge symmetry under local scalings of the probability density, derive the transformation law for the transition rates and interpret the thermodynamic force as a gauge potential.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Matteo Polettini

We show that contact reductions can be described in terms of symplectic reductions in the traditional Marsden-Weinstein-Meyer as well as the constant rank picture. The point is that we view contact structures as particular (homogeneous)…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Katarzyna Grabowska , Janusz Grabowski

Relative equilibria of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian systems with symmetry are critical points of appropriate scalar functions parametrized by the Lie algebra (or its dual) of the symmetry group. Setting aside the structures - symplectic,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-05-20 Debra Lewis

We find the hydrodynamic equations of a system of particles constrained to be in the lowest Landau level. We interpret the hydrodynamic theory as a Hamiltonian system with the Poisson brackets between the hydrodynamic variables determined…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-27 Michael Geracie , Dam Thanh Son

We consider the problem of minimizing the entropy, energy, or exergy production for state transitions of irreversible port-Hamiltonian systems subject to control constraints. Via a dissipativity-based analysis we show that optimal solutions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-21 Bernhard Maschke , Friedrich Philipp , Manuel Schaller , Karl Worthmann , Timm Faulwasser

Hamiltonian structures for spatially compact locally homogeneous vacuum universes are investigated, provided that the set of dynamical variables contains the \Teich parameters, parameterizing the purely global geometry. One of the key…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Masayuki Tanimoto , Tatsuhiko Koike , Akio Hosoya

Classical energy-momentum methods study the existence and stability properties of solutions of $t$-dependent Hamilton equations on symplectic manifolds whose evolution is given by their Hamiltonian Lie symmetries. The points of such…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 J. de Lucas , A. Maskalaniec , B. M. Zawora

We study the energy exchange between two bosonic systems that interact via bilinear transformations in the mode operators. The first mode is considered as the thermodynamic system, while the second is regarded as the bath. This work finds…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-23 Chiara Macchiavello , Alberto Riccardi , Massimiliano F. Sacchi

A generalisation of Riemannian geometry is considered, based exclusively on the minimal assumptions that the line element $ds$ is a regular function of position and direction and that the distance of every point from itself is equal to…

General Physics · Physics 2018-04-03 Paolo Maraner