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By combining a standard symmetric, symplectic integrator with a new step size controller, we provide an integration scheme that is symmetric, reversible and conserves the values of the constants of motion. This new scheme is appropriate for…

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Accurate $N$-body simulations of multiple systems such as binaries and triples are essential for understanding the formation and evolution of interacting binaries and binary mergers, including gravitational wave sources, blue stragglers and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-04 Long Wang

We suggest a numerical integration procedure for solving the equations of motion of certain classical spin systems which preserves the underlying symplectic structure of the phase space. Such symplectic integrators have been successfully…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robin Steinigeweg , Heinz-Jürgen Schmidt

Symplectic integration algorithms have become popular in recent years in long-term orbital integrations because these algorithms enforce certain conservation laws that are intrinsic to Hamiltonian systems. For problems with large variations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Man Hoi Lee , Martin J. Duncan , Harold F. Levison

Time-reversible symplectic methods, which are precisely compatible with Liouville's phase-volume-conservation theorem, are often recommended for computational simulations of Hamiltonian mechanics. Lack of energy drift is an apparent…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-10-20 William Graham Hoover , Carol Griswold Hoover

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

In early Solar System numerical simulations, where chaos is a primary driver, it is difficult to explore parameter space in a systematic way. In such simulations, stable configurations are hard to come by, and often require special…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-23 Arcelia Hermosillo Ruiz , Ruth Murray-Clay , Kathryn Volk , Rosemary Pike

Symplectic schemes are powerful methods for numerically integrating Hamiltonian systems, and their long-term accuracy and fidelity have been proved both theoretically and numerically. However direct applications of standard symplectic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Jianyuan Xiao , Hong Qin

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

Simulating the evolution of the gravitational N-body problem becomes extremely computationally expensive as N increases since the problem complexity scales quadratically with the number of bodies. We study the use of Artificial Neural…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-01 Veronica Saz Ulibarrena , Philipp Horn , Simon Portegies Zwart , Elena Sellentin , Barry Koren , Maxwell X. Cai

This article considers non-relativistic charged particle dynamics in both static and non-static electromagnetic fields, which are governed by nonseparable, possibly time-dependent Hamiltonians. For the first time, explicit symplectic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-23 Molei Tao

We investigate the computational performance of various numerical methods for the integration of the equations of motion and the variational equations for some typical classical many-body models of condensed matter physics: the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 Carlo Danieli , Bertin Many Manda , Mithun Thudiyangal , Charalampos Skokos

In a recent work of Wu, Wang, Sun and Liu, a second-order explicit symplectic integrator was proposed for the integrable Kerr spacetime geometry. It is still suited for simulating the nonintegrable dynamics of charged particles moving…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-07 Wei Sun , Ying Wang , Fuyao Liu , Xin Wu

We propose to use the properties of the Lie algebra of the angular momentum to build symplectic integrators dedicated to the Hamiltonian of the free rigid body. By introducing a dependence of the coefficients of integrators on the moments…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-07 J. Laskar , T. Vaillant

Geometric numerical integration has recently been exploited to design symplectic accelerated optimization algorithms by simulating the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian systems from the variational framework introduced in Wibisono et al. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-19 Valentin Duruisseaux , Melvin Leok

We consider the numerical integration of the matrix Hill's equation. Parametric resonances can appear and this property is of great interest in many different physical applications. Usually, the Hill's equations originate from a Hamiltonian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Philipp Bader , Sergio Blanes , Enrique Ponsoda , Muaz Seydaoğlu

We propose a family of reliable symplectic integrators adapted to the Discrete Non-Linear Schr\"odinger equation; based on an idea of Yoshida (H. Yoshida, Construction of higher order symplectic integrators, Physics Letters A, 150, 5,6,7,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-12-16 Jehan Boreux , Timoteo Carletti , Charles Hubaux

Efficient fourth order symplectic integrators are proposed for numerical integration of separable Hamiltonian systems H(p,q)=T(p)+V(q). Symmetric splitting coefficients with five to nine stages are obtained by higher order decomposition of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-10 Kristian Mads Egeris Nielsen

On the basis of the previous work by Tang \& Zhang (Appl. Math. Comput. 323, 2018, p. 204--219), in this paper we present a more effective way to construct high-order symplectic integrators for solving second order Hamiltonian equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-11 Wensheng Tang , Yajuan Sun , Jingjing Zhang

The shearing sheet is a model dynamical system that is used to study the small-scale dynamics of astrophysical disks. Numerical simulations of particle trajectories in the shearing sheet usually employ the leapfrog integrator, but this…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-17 Hanno Rein , Scott Tremaine