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Time-Symmetry Breaking in Hamiltonian Mechanics. Part II. A Memoir for Berni Julian Alder [1925–2020]
This memoir honors the late Berni Julian Alder, who inspired both of us with his pioneering development of molecular dynamics. Berni’s work with Tom Wainwright, described in the 1959 Scientific American [1], brought Bill to interview at Livermore in 1962. Hired by Berni, Bill enjoyed over 40 ye ...
Compressible Baker Maps and Their Inverses. A Memoir for Francis Hayin Ree [1936–2020]
This memoir is dedicated to the late Francis Hayin Ree, a formative influence shaping my work in statistical mechanics. Between 1963 and 1968 we collaborated on nine papers published in the Journal of Chemical Physics. Those dealt with the virial series, cell models, and computer simulation. All ...
The 2017 SNOOK PRIZES in Computational Statistical Mechanics
The 2017 Snook Prize has been awarded to Kenichiro Aoki for his exploration of chaos in Hamiltonian φ4 models. His work addresses symmetries, thermalization, and Lyapunov instabilities in few-particle dynamical systems. A companion paper by Timo Hofmann and Jochen Merker is devoted to the explor ...
Time-Symmetry Breaking in Hamiltonian Mechanics
Hamiltonian trajectories are strictly time-reversible. Any time series of Hamiltonian coordinates f q g satisfying Hamilton’s motion equations will likewise satisfy them when played “backwards”, with the corresponding momenta changing signs : f +p g