Quantum Monte Carlo Methods in Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Systems
Subtitle: Proceedings of the Ninth Taniguchi International Symposium, Susono, Japan, November 14-18, 1986
By: edited by Masuo Suzuki
Series: Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences -- 74; Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences -- 74.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9783642831560; 9783642831546
Subjects: Quantum theory; Thermodynamics; Physics
Description: This volume is the proceedings of the Ninth Taniguchi Symposium on the Theory of Condensed Matter. It presents the basic ideas of quantum statistical Monte Carlo methods, including generalizations of the standard methods, and discusses the important problem of convergence. In addition, some promising powerful new methods are proposed, for example, a transfer-matrix method. Further contributions describe specific applications to quantum spin and fermion systems at finite temperatures, such as the treatment of randomness and frustration in a triangular antiferromagnet, the investigation of critical properties of spin chains, the study of spin glasses and the simulation of polaron and bipolaron systems. In particular, some new information is given about frustrated quantum spin systems and the dense Kondo problem.
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Table of contents: title: General Aspects of Quantum Monte Carlo Methods; title: Quantum Spin Systems and Quantum Spin Glasses; title: Fermion Systems and Nuclear Systems; title: Index of Contributors.