Monte Carlo Methods in Statistical Physics

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVII

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2. Introduction: Theory and “Technical” Aspects of Monte Carlo Simulations

   • K. Binder

   Pages 1-45

3. Simulation of Classical Fluids

   • D. Levesque, J. J. Weis, J. P. Hansen

   Pages 47-120

4. Phase Diagrams of Mixtures and Magnetic Systems

   • D. P. Landau

   Pages 121-144

5. Quantum Many-Body Problems

   • D. M. Ceperley, M. H. Kalos

   Pages 145-194

6. Simulation of Small Systems

   • H. Müller-Krumbhaar

   Pages 195-223

7. Monte Carlo Studies of Relaxation Phenomena: Kinetics of Phase Changes and Critical Slowing Down

   • K. Binder, M. H. Kalos

   Pages 225-260

8. Monte Carlo Simulation of Crystal Growth

   • H. Müller-Krumbhaar

   Pages 261-299

9. Monte Carlo Studies of Systems with Disorder

   • K. Binder, D. Stauffer

   Pages 301-336

10. Applications in Surface Physics

    • D. P. Landau

    Pages 337-355

11. Recent Trends in the Development and Application of the Monte Carlo Method

    • K. Binder

    Pages 357-392

12. Back Matter

    Pages 393-415

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In the seven years since this volume first appeared. there has been an enormous expansion of the range of problems to which Monte Carlo computer simulation methods have been applied. This fact has already led to the addition of a companion volume ("Applications of the Monte Carlo Method in Statistical Physics", Topics in Current Physics. Vol . 36), edited in 1984, to this book. But the field continues to develop further; rapid progress is being made with respect to the implementation of Monte Carlo algorithms, the construction of special-purpose computers dedicated to exe­ cute Monte Carlo programs, and new methods to analyze the "data" generated by these programs. Brief descriptions of these and other developments, together with numerous addi­ tional references, are included in a new chapter , "Recent Trends in Monte Carlo Simulations" , which has been written for this second edition. Typographical correc­ tions have been made and fuller references given where appropriate, but otherwise the layout and contents of the other chapters are left unchanged. Thus this book, together with its companion volume mentioned above, gives a fairly complete and up­ to-date review of the field. It is hoped that the reduced price of this paperback edition will make it accessible to a wide range of scientists and students in the fields to which it is relevant: theoretical phYSics and physical chemistry , con­ densed-matter physics and materials science, computational physics and applied mathematics, etc.

• Gauge theory
• Lattice gauge theory
• Monte Carlo method
• Potential
• Renormalization group
• Theoretical physics
• statistical physics

• Fachbereich Physik, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz 1, Fed. Rep. of Germany

  Kurt Binder

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