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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 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

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

Hamiltonian systems are known to conserve the Hamiltonian function, which describes the energy evolution over time. Obtaining a numerical spatio-temporal scheme that accurately preserves the discretized Hamiltonian function is often a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Anand Srinivasan , Jose E. Castillo

We study the time evolution of an ideal system composed of two harmonic oscillators coupled through a quadratic Hamiltonian with arbitrary interaction strength. We solve its dynamics analytically by employing tools from symplectic geometry.…

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

This article considers non-relativistic charged particle dynamics in both static and non-static electromagnetic fields, which are governed by nonseparable, possibly time-dependent Hamiltonians. For the first time, explicit symplectic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-23 Molei Tao

Large-scale cosmological simulations are an indispensable tool for modern cosmology. To enable model-space exploration, fast and accurate predictions are critical. In this paper, we show that the performance of such simulations can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 Florian List , Oliver Hahn

We present an explicit multiscale algorithm for solving differential equations for problems with high-frequency modes that can be averaged over by separating and scaling the fast and slow dynamics within a single equation. We introduce a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Maxwell H. Rosen , Manaure Francisquez , Gregory W. Hammett

We consider the numerical integration of the matrix Hill's equation. Parametric resonances can appear and this property is of great interest in many different physical applications. Usually, the Hill's equations originate from a Hamiltonian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Philipp Bader , Sergio Blanes , Enrique Ponsoda , Muaz Seydaoğlu

We implement several symplectic integrators, which are based on two part splitting, for studying the chaotic behavior of one- and two-dimensional disordered Klein-Gordon lattices with many degrees of freedom and investigate their numerical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 B. Senyange , Ch. Skokos

A symplectic, symmetric, second-order scheme is constructed for particle evolution in a time-dependent field with a fixed spatial step. The scheme is implemented in one space dimension and tested, showing excellent adequacy to experiment…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-07-12 Alberto Ruzzon , Yves Elskens , Fabrice Doveil

A wide range of implicit time integration methods, including multi-step, implicit Runge-Kutta, and Galerkin finite-time element schemes, is evaluated in the context of chaotic dynamical systems. The schemes are applied to solve the Lorenz…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-01-02 Viktoriya Morozova , James G. Coder , Kevin Holst

Hybrid symplectic integrators such as MERCURY are widely used to simulate complex dynamical phenomena in planetary dynamics that could otherwise not be investigated. A hybrid integrator achieves high accuracy during close encounters by…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-18 Hanno Rein , David M. Hernandez , Daniel Tamayo , Garett Brown , Emily Eckels , Emma Holmes , Michelle Lau , Rejean Leblanc , Ari Silburt

We show that, when applied to any non-canonical Hamiltonian system, any integrator that is symplectic for canonical Hamiltonian problems is actually conjugate symplectic for the non-canonical structure. This result is useful because it…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-14 Beibei Zhu , Ruili Zhang , Yifa Tang , Xiongbiao Tu

When simulating molecular systems using deterministic equations of motion (e.g., Newtonian dynamics), such equations are generally numerically integrated according to a well-developed set of algorithms that share commonly agreed-upon…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-08-08 David A. Sivak , John D. Chodera , Gavin E. Crooks

We present a class of symplectic integrators adapted for the integration of perturbed Hamiltonian systems of the form $H=A+\epsilon B$. We give a constructive proof that for all integer $p$, there exists an integrator with positive steps…

Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 J. Laskar , P. Robutel

Many Hamiltonian problems in the Solar System are separable or separate into two analytically solvable parts, and thus give a great chance to the development and application of explicit symplectic integrators based on operator splitting and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-07 Xin Wu , Ying Wang , Wei Sun , Fu-Yao Liu , Wen-Biao Han

Optimization tasks are crucial in statistical machine learning. Recently, there has been great interest in leveraging tools from dynamical systems to derive accelerated and robust optimization methods via suitable discretizations of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-06 Guilherme França , Alessandro Barp , Mark Girolami , Michael I. Jordan

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