Stochastic variational approach to quantum-mechanical few-body problems
By: Yasuyuki Suzuki, Kálmán Varga.
Contributors: Varga, Kálmán, 1963-
Series: Lecture notes in physics.; m54
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: Few-body problem.; Quantum theory.; Random variables.
Description: The quantum-mechanical few-body problem is of fundamental importance for all branches of microphysics and it has substantially broadened with the advent of modern computers. This book gives a simple, unified recipe to obtain precise solutions to virtually any few-body bound-state problem and presents its application to various problems in atomic, molecular, nuclear, subnuclear and solid state physics. The main ingredients of the methodology are a wave-function expansion in terms of correlated Gaussians and an optimization of the variational trial function by stochastic sampling. The book is written for physicists and, especially, for graduate students interested in quantum few-body physics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-305)and index.