Monte Carlo Simulation in Statistical Physics: An Introduction: 0 (Graduate Texts in Physics) - Hardcover

Binder, Kurt; Heermann, Dieter W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3642031625 ISBN 13: 9783642031625

Publisher: Springer, 2010

Synopsis

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 methodsand 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 the winner of the Berni J. Alder CECAM Award for Computational Physics 2001 as well as the Boltzmann Medal in 2007.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 3642031625
• ISBN 13: 9783642031625
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 216