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Symplectic numerical methods have become a widely-used choice for the accurate simulation of Hamiltonian systems in various fields, including celestial mechanics, molecular dynamics and robotics. Even though their characteristics are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-27 Donát M. Takács , Tamás Fülöp

A parallel implementation of coupled spin-lattice dynamics in the LAMMPS molecular dynamics package is presented. The equations of motion for both spin only and coupled spin-lattice dynamics are first reviewed, including a detailed account…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-01 J. Tranchida , S. J. Plimpton , P. Thibaudeau , A. P. Thompson

We study symplectic numerical integration of mechanical systems with a Hamiltonian specified in non-canonical coordinates and its application to guiding-center motion of charged plasma particles in magnetic confinement devices. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Christopher G. Albert , Sergei V. Kasilov , Winfried Kernbichler

Energy methods for constructing time-stepping algorithms are of increased interest in application to nonlinear problems, since numerical stability can be inferred from the conservation of the system energy. Alternatively, symplectic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-24 Vasileios Chatziioannou

In this note, we propose a symplectic algorithm for the stable manifolds of the Hamilton-Jacobi equations combined with an iterative procedure in [Sakamoto-van~der Schaft, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2008]. Our algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-16 Guoyuan Chen , Gaosheng Zhu

The parareal in time algorithm allows to efficiently use parallel computing for the simulation of time-dependent problems. It is based on a decomposition of the time interval into subintervals, and on a predictor-corrector strategy, where…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-11-30 X. Dai , C. Le Bris , F. Legoll , Y. Maday

The usual explicit finite-difference method of solving partial differential equations is limited in stability because it approximates the exact amplification factor by power-series. By adapting the same exponential-splitting method of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-11 Siu A. Chin

In this paper an approach is outlined. With this approach some explicit algorithms can be applied to solve the initial value problem of $n-$dimensional damped oscillators. This approach is based upon following structure: for any…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-03-09 Tianshu Luo , Yimu Guo

Symplectic integrators are a foundation to the study of dynamical $N$-body phenomena, at scales ranging from from planetary to cosmological. These integrators preserve the Poincar\'e invariants of Hamiltonian dynamics. The $N$-body…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 David M. Hernandez

Dynamics of a charged particle in the canonical coordinates is a Hamiltonian system, and the well-known symplectic algorithm has been regarded as the de facto method for numerical integration of Hamiltonian systems due to its long-term…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 Ruili Zhang , Hong Qin , Yifa Tang , Jian Liu , Yang He , Jianyuan Xiao

We present a practical algorithm based on symplectic splitting methods to integrate numerically in time the Schr\"odinger equation. When discretized in space, the Schr\"odinger equation can be recast as a classical Hamiltonian system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-24 S. Blanes , F. Casas , A. Murua

We present a multiscale integrator for Hamiltonian systems with slowly varying quadratic stiff potentials that uses coarse timesteps (analogous to what the impulse method uses for constant quadratic stiff potentials). This method is based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-04-14 Molei Tao , Houman Owhadi , Jerrold E. Marsden

Integrals of the Liouville $1$-form, known as the first Poincar\'e integral invariant, provide a computable figure of merit for monitoring the conservation of symplecticity in the numerical integration of Hamiltonian systems. These…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 William Barham , J. W. Burby

We introduce a novel numerical method to integrate partial differential equations representing the Hamiltonian dynamics of field theories. It is a multi-symplectic integrator that locally conserves the stress-energy tensor with an excellent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-23 Hugo Ricateau , Leticia F. Cugliandolo

On this paper, we have proposed an approach to observe the time-centered difference scheme for dissipative mechanical systems from a Hamiltonian perspective and to introduce the idea of symplectic algorithm to dissipative systems. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-08-06 Tianshu Luo , Yimu Guo

When numerically integrating canonical Hamiltonian systems, the long-term conservation of some of its invariants, among which the Hamiltonian function itself, assumes a central role. The classical approach to this problem has led to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-21 Luigi Brugnano , Felice Iavernaro , Donato Trigiante

Numerical algorithms based on variational and symplectic integrators exhibit special features that make them promising candidates for application to general relativity and other constrained Hamiltonian systems. This paper lays part of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 David Brown

We investigate the performance of various methods of symplectic integration, which are based on two part splitting of the integration operator, for the numerical integration of multidimensional Hamiltonian systems. We implement these…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Bob Senyange

This article reviews some integrators particularly suitable for the numerical resolution of differential equations on a large time interval. Symplectic integrators are presented. Their stability on exponentially large time is shown through…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-26 Dina Razafindralandy , Vladimir Salnikov , Aziz Hamdouni , Ahmad Deeb

Numerical lattice gauge theory computations to generate gauge field configurations including the effects of dynamical fermions are usually carried out using algorithms that require the molecular dynamics evolution of gauge fields using…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-11 A. D. Kennedy , P. J. Silva , M. A. Clark