Numerical integration of variational equations for Hamiltonian systems with long range interactions

DOI10.1016/J.APNUM.2015.08.009MaRDI QIDQ268868zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Helen Christodoulidi, Lambros Drossos, Tassos Bountis

Publication date 15 April 2016

Published in Applied Numerical Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.07587

zbMATH Keywords

equations of motionHamiltonian systemslong range interactionsLyapunov exponentsymplectic integrationvariational equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discretization methods and integrators (symplectic, variational, geometric, etc.) for dynamical systems (37M15) Computational methods for ergodic theory (approximation of invariant measures, computation of Lyapunov exponents, entropy, etc.) (37M25) Numerical methods for Hamiltonian systems including symplectic integrators (65P10)

Abstract: We study numerically classical 1-dimensional Hamiltonian lattices involving inter-particle long range interactions that decay with distance like 1/r^alpha, for alpha>=0. We demonstrate that although such systems are generally characterized by strong chaos, they exhibit an unexpectedly organized behavior when the exponent alpha<1. This is shown by computing dynamical quantities such as the maximal Lyapunov exponent, which decreases as the number of degrees of freedom increases. We also discuss our numerical methods of symplectic integration implemented for the solution of the equations of motion together with their associated variational equations. The validity of our numerical simulations is estimated by showing that the total energy of the system is conserved within an accuracy of 4 digits (with integration step tau=0.02), even for as many as N=8000 particles and integration times as long as 10^6 units.

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