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1、AGuidetoMonteCarloSimulationsinStatisticalPhysics,SecondEditionThisnewandupdateddealswithallaspectsofMonteCarlosimulationofcomplexphysicalsystemsencounteredincondensed-matterphysicsandsta-tisticalmechanicsaswellasinrelatedfields,forexamplepolymerscience,l
2、atticegaugetheoryandproteinfolding.Afterbrieflyrecallingessentialbackgroundinstatisticalmechanicsandprob-abilitytheory,theauthorsgiveasuccinctoverviewofsimplesamplingmeth-ods.Thenextseveralchaptersdeveloptheimportancesamplingmethod,bothforlatticemodelsand
3、forsystemsincontinuumspace.Theconceptsbehindthevarioussimulationalgorithmsareexplainedinacomprehensivefashion,asarethetechniquesforefficientevaluationofsystemconfigurationsgeneratedbysimulation(histogramextrapolation,multicanonicalsampling,Wang-Landausampl
4、ing,thermodynamicintegrationandsoforth).Thefactthatsimulationsdealwithsmallsystemsisemphasized.Thetextincorporatesvariousfinitesizescalingconceptstoshowhowacarefulanalysisoffinitesizeeffectscanbeausefultoolfortheanalysisofsimulationresults.Otherchaptersals
5、oprovideintroductionstoquantumMonteCarlomethods,aspectsofsimulationsofgrowthphenomenaandothersystemsfarfromequilibrium,andtheMonteCarloRenormalizationGroupapproachtocri-ticalphenomena.Abriefoverviewofothermethodsofcomputersimulationisgiven,asisanoutlookf
6、ortheuseofMonteCarlosimulationsindisciplinesoutsideofphysics.Manyapplications,examplesandexercisesareprovidedthroughoutthebook.Furthermore,manynewreferenceshavebeenaddedtohighlightboththerecenttechnicaladvancesandthekeyapplicationsthattheynowmakepossible
7、.Thisisanexcellentguideforgraduatestudentswhohavetodealwithcomputersimulationsintheirresearch,aswellaspostdoctoralresearchers,inbothphysicsandphysicalchemistry.Itcanbeusedasatextbookforgraduatecoursesoncomputersimulationsinphysicsandrelateddisciplines.DA
8、VIDP.LANDAUwasbornonJune22,1941inSt.Louis,MO,USA.HereceivedaBAinPhysicsfromPrincetonUniversityin1963andaPh.D.inPhysicsfromYaleUniversityin1967.HisPh.D.researchinvolvedexperi-mentalstudiesofmagneticphasetransitionsasdidhisp
