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Monte Carlo Simulation in Statistical Physics: An Introduction
- Source :
- Graduate Texts in Physics ISBN: 9783030107574, Graduate Texts in Physics ISBN: 9783642031625
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Springer, 2010.
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Abstract
- Monte Carlo Simulation in Statistical Physics deals with the computer simulation of many-body systems in condensed-matter physics and related fields of physics, chemistry and beyond, to traffic flows, stock market fluctuations, etc.). Using random numbers generated by a computer, probability distributions are calculated, allowing the estimation of the thermodynamic properties of various systems. This book describes the theoretical background to several variants of these Monte Carlo methods and gives a systematic presentation from which newcomers can learn to perform such simulations and to analyze their results. The fifth edition covers Classical as well as Quantum Monte Carlo methods. Furthermore a new chapter on the sampling of free-energy landscapes has been added. To help students in their work a special web server has been installed to host programs and discussion groups (http://wwwcp.tphys.uni-heidelberg.de). Prof. Binder was awarded the Berni J. Alder CECAM Award for Computational Physics 2001 as well as the Boltzmann Medal in 2007.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISBN :
- 978-3-030-10757-4
978-3-642-03162-5 - ISBNs :
- 9783030107574 and 9783642031625
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Graduate Texts in Physics ISBN: 9783030107574, Graduate Texts in Physics ISBN: 9783642031625
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....63f1ce31713eefe8913ae0cb834aef5b