A discrete action principle for electrodynamics and the construction of explicit symplectic integrators for linear, non-dispersive media

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2009.01.019MaRDI QIDQ1017604zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jeffrey M. McMahon, Stephen K. Gray, George C. Schatz

Publication date 12 May 2009

Published in Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2009.01.019

zbMATH Keywords

dispersionstabilityRunge-KuttaLagrangianelectrodynamicsFDTDsymplectic integrator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite difference methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M20) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12) Numerical methods for Hamiltonian systems including symplectic integrators (65P10) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Applications to the sciences (65Z05)

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