Ergodicity and the Numerical Simulation of Hamiltonian Systems

DOI10.1137/040603802zbMath1090.65139MaRDI QIDQ5700605

Paul F. Tupper

Publication date: 28 October 2005

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/040603802

zbMATH Keywords

numerical examplesergodicityHamiltonian systemsmolecular dynamicsstatistical mechanicssymplectic integratorsStörmer-Verlet methodnumerical integratorsvolume-preserving integrators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

37A25: Ergodicity, mixing, rates of mixing

65P10: Numerical methods for Hamiltonian systems including symplectic integrators

37M15: Discretization methods and integrators (symplectic, variational, geometric, etc.) for dynamical systems

37M25: Computational methods for ergodic theory (approximation of invariant measures, computation of Lyapunov exponents, entropy, etc.)

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