AB Initio Quantum Monte Carlo Tutorial : Going Beyond DFT

Ryo Maezono

ISBN 10: 9819541336 / ISBN 13: 9789819541331

Published by Springer Nature Singapore, 2026

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book offers a unique learn-by-tutorial approach for ab initio quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) electronic state calculations. The ab initio QMC method is a representative Beyond DFT technique that overcomes challenges faced by the widely used density functional theory (DFT) in materials science. This is the first book focusing on simulation operations of ab initio QMC methods in a tutorial format. This book explains the theoretical background of the ab initio QMC method as a showcase of many-body electron theory attracting interest also from fundamental scientists dealing with quantum many-body problems. The content of this book is written in an accessible manner, targeting the same audience as the author s previous work, Ab initio Calculation Tutorial: For Materials Analysis, Informatics and Design. It is structured to allow beginners in simulation from experimental fields and industry to set up practice codes on their personal PCs and learn independently, without assuming prior knowledge of many-body electron theory or simulation science. Readers learn how to solve the problems on intermolecular binding forces in biomolecular systems, magnetic descriptions in spintronics, and material properties involving discontinuous density distributions such as surfaces, interfaces, and defects.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: AB Initio Quantum Monte Carlo Tutorial : Going Beyond DFT
• Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9819541336
• ISBN 13: 9789819541331
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 241W x 160H x 26D millimeters 241 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 26 millimeters depth
• Weight: 733 grams

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This book offers a unique “learn-by-tutorial” approach for ab initio quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) electronic state calculations. The ab initio QMC method is a representative “Beyond DFT” technique that overcomes challenges faced by the widely used density functional theory (DFT) in materials science. This is the first book focusing on simulation operations of ab initio QMC methods in a tutorial format. This book explains the theoretical background of the ab initio QMC method as a showcase of many-body electron theory attracting interest also from fundamental scientists dealing with quantum many-body problems. The content of this book is written in an accessible manner, targeting the same audience as the author’s previous work, “Ab initio Calculation Tutorial: For Materials Analysis, Informatics and Design.” It is structured to allow beginners in simulation from experimental fields and industry to set up practice codes on their personal PCs and learn independently, without assuming prior knowledge of many-body electron theory or simulation science. Readers learn how to solve the problems on intermolecular binding forces in biomolecular systems, magnetic descriptions in spintronics, and material properties involving discontinuous density distributions such as surfaces, interfaces, and defects.

About the Author

Dr. Ryo Maezono (Ph.D./Applied Physics) is a professor at Institute of Science Tokyo, working on Materials and Informatics. He got his B.Sc. (1995) and Ph.D. (2000) in Applied Physics at Tokyo University, majoring condensed matter theory working on the phase diagrams of magnetic oxides. He was a JSPS fellow (Tokyo University/1999–2000), working on the magnetic properties of oxides. He got a postdoctoral position at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University (EPSRC fellow/2000–2002), and moved to NIMS (National Institute of Materials Science, Japan), as a tenure researcher (2001–2007). In 2007, he moved to JAIST and had organized a research group as a full professor until 2025. From 2025, he moved to Science Tokyo as a management professor in the division of Materials and Informatics. Since his postdoc in Cambridge, he has worked on Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) electronic structure calculations using massive parallel computations. He has published several DMC works using world top class huge parallel calculations, exploring cutting-edge of numerical quantum many-body problem. As an expert of DMC method, he has given several lectures on many-body problems at Osaka University, Kyushu University, Yokohama National University Kanazawa University, etc., outside of JAIST. As a computer scientist, he has contributed also to the education of simulation science, which contents are published in his books (ISBN:978-9819656455, 978-4627818217, 978-4627170315, 978-9819909186, 978-4627170322). As a researcher of computational materials science, he leads several industrial collaborations with companies, as well as those with experimental synthesis community in inorganic Chemistry.