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1、AGuidetoMonteCarloSimulationsinStatisticalPhysicsDavidP.LandauKurtBinderCambridgeUniversityPressAGuidetoMonteCarloSimulationsinStatisticalPhysicsThisbookdealswithallaspectsofMonteCarlosimulationofcomplexphysicalsystemsencounteredincondensed-matterphysicsandstatisticalm
2、echanicsaswellasinrelated®elds,forexamplepolymerscienceandlatticegaugetheory.Afterbrie¯yrecallingessentialbackgroundinstatisticalmechanicsandprob-abilitytheory,theauthorsgiveasuccinctoverviewofsimplesamplingmeth-ods.Thenextseveralchaptersdeveloptheimportancesamplingmet
3、hod,bothforlatticemodelsandforsystemsincontinuumspace.Theconceptsbehindthevarioussimulationalgorithmsareexplainedinacomprehensivefashion,asarethetechniquesforef®cientevaluationofsystemcon®gurationsgeneratedbysimulation(histogramextrapolation,multicanonicalsampling,ther
4、modynamicintegrationandsoforth).Thefactthatsimulationsdealwithsmallsystemsisemphasized,andthetextincorporatesvarious®nitesizescalingconceptstoshowhowacarefulanalysisof®nitesizeeffectscanbeausefultoolfortheanalysisofsimulationresults.Otherchaptersalsoprovideintroduction
5、stoquantumMonteCarlomethods,aspectsofsimulationsofgrowthphenomenaandothersystemsfarfromequilibrium,andtheMonteCarlorenormalizationgroupapproachtocriticalphenomena.Throughoutthebooktherearemanyapplications,examples,andexercisestohelpthereaderinathoroughstudyofthisbook;f
6、urthermore,manyup-to-daterefer-encestomorespecializedliteraturearealsoprovided.Thisbookwillbeboughtbygraduatestudentswhohavetodealwithcom-putersimulationsintheirresearch,aswellasbypostdoctoralresearchers,inbothphysicsandphysicalchemistry.Itcanbeusedasatextbookforgradua
7、tecoursesoncomputersimulationsinphysicsandrelateddisciplines.DAVIDP.LANDAUwasbornonJune22,1941inSt.Louis,MO,USA.HereceivedaB.A.inPhysicsfromPrincetonUniversityin1963andaPh.D.inPhysicsfromYaleUniversityin1967.HisPh.D.researchinvolvedexperi-mentalstudiesofmagneticphasetr
8、ansitionsasdidhispostdoctoralresearchattheCNRSinGrenoble,France.AfterteachingatYaleforayearhemovedtotheUniversityofGe
