Computational Statistical Physics
Subtitle: From Billiards to Monte Carlo
By: by Karl Heinz Hoffmann, Michael Schreiber
Contributors: Schreiber, Michael
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9783642075711; 9783662048047
Subjects: Physics
Description: In recent years statistical physics has made significant progress as a result of advances in numerical techniques. While good textbooks exist on the general aspects of statistical physics, the numerical methods and the new developments based on large-scale computing are not usually adequately presented. In this book 16 experts describe the application of methods of statistical physics to various areas in physics: disordered materials, quasicrystals, semiconductors, ... and also to other areas beyond physics, such as financial markets, game theory, evolution, and traffic planning, in which statistical physics has recently become significant. In this way the universality of the underlying concepts and methods such as fractals, random matrix theory, time series, neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, becomes clear. The topics are covered by introductory, tutorial presentations.
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Table of contents: title: From the contents: Percolation, Renormalization and the Quantum-Hall Transition; title: Financial Time Series and Statistical Mechanics; title: Characterization of the Metal-Insulator Transition in the Anderson Model of Localization; title: Nonlinear Dynamics of Active Brownian Particles; title: Quantum Phase Transitions; title: Aperiodicity and Disorder - Does it Matter?- Introduction to Energy-Level Statistics; title: Randomness in Optical Spectra of Semiconductor Nanostructures.