Condensed Matter Physics, 2020, vol. 23, No. 2, 23603
DOI:10.5488/CMP.23.23603           arXiv:2003.02600

Title: A symplectic integrator for molecular dynamics on a hypersphere
Author(s):
  J.-M. Caillol (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France)

We present a reversible and symplectic algorithm called ROLL, for integrating the equations of motion in molecular dynamics simulations of simple fluids on a hypersphere Sd of arbitrary dimension d. It is derived in the framework of geometric algebra and shown to be mathematically equivalent to algorithm RATTLE. An application to molecular dynamics simulation of the one component plasma is briefly discussed.

Key words: classical statistical mechanics, classical fluids, molecular dynamics


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