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Hamilton's equations are fundamental for modeling complex physical systems, where preserving key properties such as energy and momentum is crucial for reliable long-term simulations. Geometric integrators are widely used for this purpose,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Priscilla Canizares , Davide Murari , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Ferdia Sherry , Zakhar Shumaylov

While symplectic manifolds have no local invariants, they do admit many global numerical invariants. Prominent among them are the so-called symplectic capacities. Different capacities are defined in different ways, and so relations between…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 K. Cieliebak , H. Hofer , J. Latschev , F. Schlenk

We consider irreversible and coupled reversible-irreversible nonlinear port-Hamiltonian systems and the respective sets of thermodynamic equilibria. In particular, we are concerned with optimal state transitions and output stabilization on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Friedrich Philipp , Manuel Schaller , Karl Worthmann , Timm Faulwasser , Bernhard Maschke

For 1D Hamiltonian systems with periodic solutions, Helmholtz formalism provides a tantalizing interpretation of classical thermodynamics, based on time integrals of purely mechanical quantities and without need of statistical description.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-28 Amilcare Porporato , Lamberto Rondoni

Ability of dynamical systems to relax to equilibrium has been investigated since the invention of statistical mechanics, which establishes the connection between dynamics of many-body Hamiltonian systems and phenomenological thermodynamics.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-01 K. S. Glavatskiy , V. L. Kulinskii

We present the Hamiltonian formalism for the Euler equation of symplectic fluids, introduce symplectic vorticity, and study related invariants. In particular, this allows one to extend D.Ebin's long-time existence result for geodesics on…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-09 Boris Khesin

The local equilibrium thermodynamics is a basic assumption of macroscopic descriptions of the out of equilibrium dynamics for Hamiltonian systems. We numerically analyze the Hamiltonian Potts model in two dimensions to study the violation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-21 Michikazu Kobayashi , Naoko Nakagawa , Shin-ichi Sasa

Port-Hamiltonian systems theory provides a structured approach to modelling, optimization and control of multiphysical systems. Yet, its relationship to thermodynamics seems to be unclear. The Hamiltonian is traditionally thought of as…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-11-01 Markus Lohmayer , Paul Kotyczka , Sigrid Leyendecker

This work develops a symplectic framework for quantum computing to be applied to classical Hamiltonian systems, exploiting the intrinsic geometric compatibility between unitary quantum evolution and symplectic phase-space dynamics in a…

A few decades after Hill's work on nano-thermodynamics, the development of a thermodynamic framework, to account consistently for the fluctuations of small systems due to their interactions with the surrounding environment, is still…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-23 Salvatore Calabrese , Lamberto Rondoni , Amilcare Porporato

This work deals with the physical system governed by a Hamiltonian operator, in two-dimensional space, of spinless charged particles subject to a perpendicular magnetic field B, coupled with a harmonic potential in the context of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-30 Bienvenu Gnim Adewi , Isiaka Aremua , Laure Gouba

Dissipation can be represented in Hamiltonian mechanics in an extended phase space as a symplectic process. The method uses an auxiliary variable which represents the excitation of unresolved dynamics and a Hamiltonian for the interaction…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-02-16 Richard Blender , Gualtiero Badin

Stochastic thermodynamics as reviewed here systematically provides a framework for extending the notions of classical thermodynamics like work, heat and entropy production to the level of individual trajectories of well-defined…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 Udo Seifert

A Hamiltonian dynamics is defined for the XY model by adding a kinetic energy term. Thermodynamical properties (total energy, magnetization, vorticity) derived from microcanonical simulations of this model are found to be in agreement with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-13 Xavier Leoncini , Alberto D. Verga , Stefano Ruffo

Singular theories, characterised by the presence of degeneracies in their Lagrangian or Hamiltonian descriptions, require the systematic implementation of constraints in order to obtain well-defined dynamics. While the symplectic framework…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Callum Bell , David Sloan

I present in this paper some tools in Symplectic and Poisson Geometry in view of their applications in Geometric mechanics and Mathematical Physics. After a short discussion of the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms, including the use of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-21 Charles-Michel Marle

An analytical method to compute thermodynamic properties of a given Hamiltonian system is proposed. This method combines ideas of both dynamical systems and ensemble approaches to thermodynamics, providing de facto a possible alternative to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Xavier Leoncini , Alberto D. Verga

In this paper we will explore fundamental constraints on the evolution of certain symplectic subvolumes possessed by any Hamiltonian phase space. This research has direct application to optimal control and control of conservative mechanical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-09-11 Jared M. Maruskin , Daniel J. Scheeres , Anthony M. Bloch

Stochastic thermodynamics lays down a broad framework to revisit the venerable concepts of heat, work and entropy production for individual stochastic trajectories of mesoscopic systems. Remarkably, this approach, relying on stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-31 David Guéry-Odelin , Christopher Jarzynski , Carlos A. Plata , Antonio Prados , Emmanuel Trizac

In many textbooks of thermodynamics, the polytropic process is usually introduced by defining its process equation rather than analyzing its actual origin. We realize a polytropic process of an ideal gas system when it is thermally contact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Yu-Han Ma