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The gravitational $N$-body problem, which is fundamentally important in astrophysics to predict the motion of $N$ celestial bodies under the mutual gravity of each other, is usually solved numerically because there is no known general…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-12-10 Maxwell X. Cai , Simon Portegies Zwart , Damian Podareanu

Since its formulation by Sir Isaac Newton, the problem of solving the equations of motion for three bodies under their own gravitational force has remained practically unsolved. Currently, the solution for a given initialization can only be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-29 Philip G. Breen , Christopher N. Foley , Tjarda Boekholt , Simon Portegies Zwart

We review the recent optimizations of gravitational $N$-body kernels for running them on graphics processing units (GPUs), on single hosts and massive parallel platforms. For each of the two main $N$-body techniques, direct summation and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-22 Simon Portegies Zwart , Jeroen Bédorf

The N-body problem is a classic problem involving a system of N discrete bodies mutually interacting in a dynamical system. At any moment in time there are N*(N - 1)/2 such interactions occurring. This scaling as N^2 leads to computational…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Alexander Brandt

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are becoming important tools in physics research and education because they help in data analysis and complement traditional analytical methods. In this work, ANN modeling is introduced in a standard…

Physics Education · Physics 2026-05-15 Saralasrita Mohanty , Prabhu Prasad Tripathy , Raja Das , Sudakshina Prusty

This paper presents a novel approach for accelerating n-body simulations by integrating a physics-informed graph neural networks (GNN) with traditional numerical methods. Our method implements a leapfrog-based simulation engine to generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Víctor Ramos-Osuna , Alberto Díaz-Álvarez , Raúl Lara-Cabrera

One of the most common and universal problems in science is to investigate a function. The prediction can be made by an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) or a mathematical model. Both approaches have their advantages and disadvantages.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Szymon Buchaniec , Marek Gnatowski , Grzegorz Brus

A coupled spintronic oscillator array has been considered attractive for neuromorphic computing applications. Experimental reports have shown the nano-constriction geometry to be a relatively easier-to-fabricate platform for implementing…

Recently, Hamiltonian neural networks (HNN) have been introduced to incorporate prior physical knowledge when learning the dynamical equations of Hamiltonian systems. Hereby, the symplectic system structure is preserved despite the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Eva Dierkes , Christian Offen , Sina Ober-Blöbaum , Kathrin Flaßkamp

In this note we approach the classical, Newtonian, gravitational $N$-body problem by mean of a new, original numerical integration method. After a short summary of the fundamental characteristics of the problem, including a sketch of some…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 V. Parisi , R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta

Neural networks (NNs) have great potential in solving the ground state of various many-body problems. However, several key challenges remain to be overcome before NNs can tackle problems and system sizes inaccessible with more established…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-24 Khachatur Nazaryan , Filippo Gaggioli , Yi Teng , Liang Fu

The challenge posed by the many-body problem in quantum physics originates from the difficulty of describing the non-trivial correlations encoded in the exponential complexity of the many-body wave function. Here we demonstrate that…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-02-13 Giuseppe Carleo , Matthias Troyer

Artificial and biological neural networks (ANNs and BNNs) can encode inputs in the form of combinations of individual neurons' activities. These combinatorial neural codes present a computational challenge for direct and efficient analysis…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Thomas F Burns , Irwansyah

The paper presents a numerical implementation of the gravitational N-body problem with contact interactions between non-spherically shaped bodies. The work builds up on a previous implementation of the code and extends its capabilities. The…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-11 F. Ferrari , M. Lavagna , E. Blazquez

Modeling of conservative systems with neural networks is an area of active research. A popular approach is to use Hamiltonian neural networks (HNNs) which rely on the assumptions that a conservative system is described with Hamilton's…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Katsiaryna Haitsiukevich , Alexander Ilin

Hamiltonian neural networks (HNNs) are state-of-the-art models that regress the vector field of a dynamical system under the learning bias of Hamilton's equations. A recent observation is that embedding a bias regarding the additive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Zi-Yu Khoo , Dawen Wu , Jonathan Sze Choong Low , Stéphane Bressan

We developed a Keplerian-based Hamiltonian splitting for solving the gravitational $N$-body problem. This splitting allows us to approximate the solution of a general $N$-body problem by a composition of multiple, independently evolved…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 G. Gonçalves Ferrari , T. Boekholt , S. F. Portegies Zwart

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown promise in learning the ground-state electronic properties of materials, subverting ab initio density functional theory (DFT) calculations when the underlying lattices can be represented as small…

Machine learning and artificial neural networks (ANNs) have increasingly become integral to data analysis research in astrophysics due to the growing demand for fast calculations resulting from the abundance of observational data.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-11 Ioannis Liodis , Evaggelos Smirniotis , Nikolaos Stergioulas

There has been a wave of interest in applying machine learning to study dynamical systems. We present a Hamiltonian neural network that solves the differential equations that govern dynamical systems. This is an equation-driven machine…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-07-01 Marios Mattheakis , David Sondak , Akshunna S. Dogra , Pavlos Protopapas
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