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The guiding center approximation represents a very powerful tool for analyzing and modeling a charged particle motion in strong magnetic fields. This approximation is based on conservation of the adiabatic invariant, magnetic moment.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-30 Anatoly Neishtadt , Anton Artemyev

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

Simulating trajectories of dynamical systems is a fundamental problem in a wide range of fields such as molecular dynamics, biochemistry, and pedestrian dynamics. Machine learning has become an invaluable tool for scaling physics-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Kiet Bennema ten Brinke , Koen Minartz , Vlado Menkovski

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

The dynamics of physical systems is often constrained to lower dimensional sub-spaces due to the presence of conserved quantities. Here we propose a method to learn and exploit such symmetry constraints building upon Hamiltonian Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Marc Syvaeri , Sven Krippendorf

We present a new existence mechanism, based on symplectic topology, for orbits of Hamiltonian flows connecting a pair of disjoint subsets in the phase space. The method involves function theory on symplectic manifolds combined with rigidity…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Michael Entov , Leonid Polterovich

We describe a symplectic approach towards thermodynamics in which thermodynamic transformations are described by (symplectic) Hamiltonian dynamics. Upon identifying the spaces of equilibrium states with Lagrangian submanifolds of a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Aritra Ghosh , E. Harikumar

Modern learning systems act on internal representations of data, yet how these representations encode underlying physical or statistical structure is often left implicit. In physics, conservation laws of Hamiltonian systems such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Robert Simon Fong , Gouhei Tanaka , Kazuyuki Aihara

This paper presents a mathematically rigorous framework for brain-inspired representation learning founded on the interplay between persistent topological structures and cohomological flows. Neural computation is reformulated as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Preksha Girish , Rachana Mysore , Mahanthesha U , Shrey Kumar , Shipra Prashant

Dynamists have been studying Hamiltonian systems for a long time. However, many physical systems are dissipative and do not preserve a symplectic form. This is the case, for example, with systems involving friction, which multiply the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Marie-Claude Arnaud

We present SymFlux, a novel deep learning framework that performs symbolic regression to identify Hamiltonian functions from their corresponding vector fields on the standard symplectic plane. SymFlux models utilize hybrid CNN-LSTM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 M. A. Evangelista-Alvarado , P. Suárez-Serrato

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

We propose a parametric hyperbolic conservation law (SymCLaw) for learning hyperbolic systems directly from data while ensuring conservation, entropy stability, and hyperbolicity by design. Unlike existing approaches that typically enforce…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Lizuo Liu , Lu Zhang , Anne Gelb

While Hamiltonian mechanics provides a powerful inductive bias for neural networks modeling dynamical systems, Hamiltonian Neural Networks and their variants often fail to capture complex temporal dynamics spanning multiple timescales. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yaojun Li , Yulong Yang , Christine Allen-Blanchette

Symplectic integrators for Hamiltonian systems have been quite successful for studying few-body dynamical systems. These integrators are frequently derived using a formalism built on symplectic maps. There have been recent efforts to extend…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 Stephen D. Webb , Dan T. Abell , Nathan M. Cook , David L. Bruhwiler

Relativistic dynamics of a charged particle in time-dependent electromagnetic fields has theoretical significance and a wide range of applications. It is often multi-scale and requires accurate long-term numerical simulations using…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Ruili Zhang , Yulei Wang , Yang He , Jianyuan Xiao , Jian Liu , Hong Qin , Yifa Tang

This paper introduces equivariant hamiltonian flows, a method for learning expressive densities that are invariant with respect to a known Lie-algebra of local symmetry transformations while providing an equivariant representation of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-01 Danilo Jimenez Rezende , Sébastien Racanière , Irina Higgins , Peter Toth

Neural networks are a central technique in machine learning. Recent years have seen a wave of interest in applying neural networks to physical systems for which the governing dynamics are known and expressed through differential equations.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-31 M. Mattheakis , P. Protopapas , D. Sondak , M. Di Giovanni , E. Kaxiras

The high volatility of renewable energies calls for more energy efficiency. Thus, different physical systems need to be coupled efficiently although they run on various time scales. Here, the port-Hamiltonian (pH) modeling framework comes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Sarah-Alexa Hauschild , Nicole Marheineke

The existence of explicit symplectic integrators for general nonseparable Hamiltonian systems is an open and important problem in both numerical analysis and computing in science and engineering, as explicit integrators are usually more…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Lijie Mei , Xinyuan Wu , Yaolin Jiang