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Stochastic Variational Approach to Quantum-Mechanical Few-Body Problems

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  • © 1998

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Authors:
  1. Yasuyuki Suzuki

    1. Department of Physics, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan

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  2. Kálmán Varga

    1. Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, USA

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  • the only text offering a kind of universal approach to do calculations for the quantum-mechanical few-body problem.
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics Monographs (LNPMGR, volume 54)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-6

  3. Quantum-mechanical few-body problems

    Pages 7-20

  4. Introduction to variational methods

    Pages 21-37

  5. Stochastic variational method

    Pages 39-63

  6. Other methods to solve few-body problems

    Pages 65-73

  7. Variational trial functions

    Pages 75-122

  8. Matrix elements for spherical Gaussians

    Pages 123-148

  9. Small atoms and molecules

    Pages 149-176

  10. Baryon spectroscopy

    Pages 177-186

  11. Few-body problems in solid state physics

    Pages 187-211

  12. Nuclear few-body systems

    Pages 213-246

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 247-310
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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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Physics, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan

    Yasuyuki Suzuki

  • Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, USA

    Kálmán Varga

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