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Machine learning methods have nowadays become easy-to-use tools for constructing high-dimensional interatomic potentials with ab initio accuracy. Although machine learned interatomic potentials are generally orders of magnitude faster than…

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End-to-end deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success across various domains but are often criticized for their lack of interpretability. While post hoc explanation methods attempt to address this issue, they often fail to…

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The rapid growth of research in exploiting machine learning to predict chaotic systems has revived a recent interest in Hamiltonian Neural Networks (HNNs) with physical constraints defined by the Hamilton's equations of motion, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Chen-Di Han , Bryan Glaz , Mulugeta Haile , Ying-Cheng Lai

The problem of finding superintegrable Hamiltonians and their integrals of motion can be reduced to solving a series of compatibility equations that result from the overdetermination of the commutator or Poisson bracket relations. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Ian Marquette , Anthony Parr

We develop a computational method to learn a molecular Hamiltonian matrix from matrix-valued time series of the electron density. As we demonstrate for three small molecules, the resulting Hamiltonians can be used for electron density…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-01 Harish S. Bhat , Karnamohit Ranka , Christine M. Isborn

One of the key challenges in quantum machine learning is finding relevant machine learning tasks with a provable quantum advantage. A natural candidate for this is learning unknown Hamiltonian dynamics. Here, we tackle the supervised…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Alice Barthe , Mahtab Yaghubi Rad , Michele Grossi , Vedran Dunjko

Utilizing the integral expression of Coulomb's Law to determine the electric potential from a continuous charge distribution is a canonical exercise in Electricity and Magnetism (E&M). In this study, we use both think-aloud interviews and…

Physics Education · Physics 2015-06-05 Bethany R. Wilcox , Marcos D. Caballero , Rachel E. Pepper , Steven J. Pollock

Hamiltonian systems lie at the heart of modeling the physical world. Their defining scalar, the Hamiltonian, encodes both energy conservation and symplectic geometry in its phase-space trajectories. Recent deep learning approaches model…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Joe Germany , Joseph Bakarji , Sara Najem

The nonrelativistic Hamiltonians of scalar, spinor and vector particles in the electromagnetic field are studied by applying the Douglas-Kroll-Hess approach. Their relativistic Hamiltonians are expanded on the potential, and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-20 Wanping Zhou , Xuesong Mei , Haoxue Qiao

This paper investigates the problem of data-driven modeling of port-Hamiltonian systems while preserving their intrinsic Hamiltonian structure and stability properties. We propose a novel neural-network-based port-Hamiltonian modeling…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Binh Nguyen , Nam T. Nguyen , Truong X. Nghiem

Using a theorem of partial differential equations, we present a general way of deriving the conserved quantities associated with a given classical point mechanical system, denoted by its Hamiltonian. Some simple examples are given to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paulus C. Tjiang , Sylvia H. Sutanto

After setting up a general model for supersymmetric classical mechanics in more than one dimension we describe systems with centrally symmetric potentials and their Poisson algebra. We then apply this information to the investigation and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Heumann

In this chapter, we discuss recent advances and new opportunities through methods of machine learning for the field of classical density functional theory, dealing with the equilibrium properties of thermal nano- and micro-particle systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-12 Alessandro Simon , Martin Oettel

The structure of continuous Hopfield networks is revisited from a system-theoretic point of view. After adopting a novel electrical network interpretation involving nonlinear capacitors, it is shown that Hopfield networks admit a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Arjan van der Schaft

We present a novel technique to obtain relativistic corrections to the central force problem in the Lagrangian formulation, using a generalized potential energy function. We derive a general expression for a generalized potential energy…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-07-12 Ashmeet Singh , Binoy Krishna Patra

We study the Hydrogen atom as a quantum mechanical system with a Coulomb like potential, with a semiclassical approach based on an effective description of quantum mechanics. This treatment allows us to describe the quantum state of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-23 Guillermo Chacón-Acosta , Héctor H. Hernández

An explicit high-order noncanonical symplectic algorithm for ideal two-fluid systems is developed. The fluid is discretized as particles in the Lagrangian description, while the electromagnetic fields and internal energy are treated as…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Jianyuan Xiao , Hong Qin , Philip J. Morrison , Jian Liu , Zhi Yu , Ruili Zhang , Yang He

Machine learned chemical potentials have shown great promise as alternatives to conventional computational chemistry methods to represent the potential energy of a given atomic or molecular system as a function of its geometry. However,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-15 Christian Devereux , Yoona Yang , Carles Martí , Judit Zádor , Michael S. Eldred , Habib N. Najm

Pseudo-Hamiltonian neural networks (PHNN) were recently introduced for learning dynamical systems that can be modelled by ordinary differential equations. In this paper, we extend the method to partial differential equations. The resulting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Sølve Eidnes , Kjetil Olsen Lye

Data-driven modeling of physical systems often relies on learning both positions and momenta to accurately capture Hamiltonian dynamics. However, in many practical scenarios, only position measurements are readily available. In this work,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Ruichen Xu , Zongyu Wu , Luoyao Chen , Georgios Kementzidis , Siyao Wang , Haochun Wang , Yiwei Shi , Yuefan Deng