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Computer Meets Theoretical Physics - The New Frontier of Molecular Simulation (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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Computer Meets Theoretical Physics - The New Frontier of Molecular Simulation (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: The Frontiers Collection
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This book provides a vivid account of the early history of
molecular simulation, a new frontier for our understanding of
matter that was opened when the demands of theoretical physicists
were met by the availability of the modern computers. Since their
inception, electronic computers have enormously increased their
performance, thus making possible the unprecedented technological
revolution that characterizes our present times. This obvious
technological advancement has brought with it a silent scientific
revolution in the practice of theoretical physics. In particular,
in the physics of matter it has opened up a direct route from the
microscopic physical laws to observable phenomena. One can now
study the time evolution of systems composed of millions of
molecules, and simulate the behaviour of macroscopic materials and
actually predict their properties. Molecular simulation has
provided a new theoretical and conceptual tool that physicists
could only dream of when the foundations of statistical mechanics
were laid. Molecular simulation has undergone impressive
development, both in the size of the scientific community involved
and in the range and scope of its applications. It has become the
ubiquitous workhorse for investigating the nature of complex
condensed matter systems in physics, chemistry, materials and the
life sciences. Yet these developments remain largely unknown
outside the inner circles of practitioners, and they have so far
never been described for a wider public. The main objective of this
book is therefore to offer a reasonably comprehensive
reconstruction of the early history of molecular simulation
addressed to an audience of both scientists and interested
non-scientists, describing the scientific and personal trajectories
of the main protagonists and discussing the deep conceptual
innovations that their work produced.
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