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1[/============================================================================
2  Boost.odeint
3
4  Copyright 2011 Mario Mulansky
5  Copyright 2011-2012 Karsten Ahnert
6
7  Use, modification and distribution is subject to the Boost Software License,
8  Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
9  http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
10=============================================================================/]
11
12
13[section Symplectic System]
14
15[heading Description]
16
17This concept describes how to define a symplectic system written with generalized coordinate `q` and generalized momentum `p`:
18
19[' q'(t) = f(p) ]
20
21[' p'(t) = g(q) ]
22
23Such a situation is typically found for Hamiltonian systems with a separable Hamiltonian:
24
25[' H(p,q) = H[sub kin](p) + V(q) ]
26
27which gives the equations of motion:
28
29[' q'(t) = dH[sub kin] / dp = f(p) ]
30
31[' p'(t) = dV / dq = g(q) ]
32
33
34The algorithmic implementation of this situation is described by a pair of callable objects for /f/ and /g/ with a specific parameter signature.
35Such a system should be implemented as a std::pair of functions or a functors.
36Symplectic systems are used in symplectic steppers like `symplectic_rkn_sb3a_mclachlan`.
37
38[heading Notation]
39
40[variablelist
41  [[`System`] [A type that is a model of SymplecticSystem]]
42  [[`Coor`] [The type of the coordinate  ['q]]]
43  [[`Momentum`] [The type of the momentum ['p]]]
44  [[`CoorDeriv`] [The type of the derivative of coordinate ['q']]]
45  [[`MomentumDeriv`] [The type of the derivative of momentum ['p']]]
46  [[`sys`] [An object of the type `System`]]
47  [[`q`] [Object of type Coor]]
48  [[`p`] [Object of type Momentum]]
49  [[`dqdt`] [Object of type CoorDeriv]]
50  [[`dpdt`] [Object of type MomentumDeriv]]
51]
52
53[heading Valid expressions]
54
55[table
56  [[Name] [Expression] [Type] [Semantics]]
57  [[Check for pair] [`boost::is_pair< System >::type`] [`boost::mpl::true_`] [Check if System is a pair]]
58  [[Calculate ['dq/dt = f(p)]] [`sys.first( p , dqdt )`] [`void`] [Calculates ['f(p)], the result is stored into `dqdt`] ]
59  [[Calculate ['dp/dt = g(q)]] [`sys.second( q , dpdt )`] [`void`] [Calculates ['g(q)], the result is stored into `dpdt`] ]
60]
61
62[endsect]
63
64
65[section Simple Symplectic System]
66
67[heading Description]
68
69In most Hamiltonian systems the kinetic term is a quadratic term in the momentum ['H[sub kin] = p^2 / 2m] and in many cases it is possible to rescale coordinates and set /m=1/ which leads to a trivial equation of motion:
70
71[' q'(t) = f(p) = p. ]
72
73while for /p'/ we still have the general form
74
75[' p'(t) = g(q) ]
76
77As this case is very frequent we introduced a concept where only the nontrivial equation for /p'/ has to be provided to the symplectic stepper.
78We call this concept ['SimpleSymplecticSystem]
79
80[heading Notation]
81
82[variablelist
83  [[System] [A type that is a model of SimpleSymplecticSystem]]
84  [[Coor] [The type of the coordinate  ['q]]]
85  [[MomentumDeriv] [The type of the derivative of momentum ['p']]]
86  [[sys] [An object that models System]]
87  [[q] [Object of type Coor]]
88  [[dpdt] [Object of type MomentumDeriv]]
89]
90
91[heading Valid Expressions]
92
93[table
94  [[Name] [Expression] [Type] [Semantics]]
95  [[Check for pair] [`boost::is_pair< System >::type`] [`boost::mpl::false_`] [Check if System is a pair, should be evaluated to false in this case.]]
96  [[Calculate ['dp/dt = g(q)]] [`sys( q , dpdt )`] [`void`] [Calculates ['g(q)], the result is stored into `dpdt`] ]
97]
98
99[endsect]