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Monte Carlo computer simulations are now a standard tool in
scientific fields such as condensed-matter physics, including
surface-physics and applied-physics problems (metallurgy,
diffusion, and segregation, etc. ), chemical physics, including
studies of solutions, chemical reactions, polymer statistics, etc.,
and field theory. With the increasing ability of this method to
deal with quantum-mechanical problems such as quantum spin systems
or many-fermion problems, it will become useful for other questions
in the fields of elementary-particle and nuclear physics as well.
The large number of recent publications dealing either with
applications or further development of some aspects of this method
is a clear indication that the scientific community has realized
the power and versatility of Monte Carlo simula tions, as well as
of related simulation techniques such as "molecular dynamics" and
"Langevin dynamics," which are only briefly mentioned in the
present book. With the increasing availability of recent
very-high-speed general-purpose computers, many problems become
tractable which have so far escaped satisfactory treatment due to
prac tical limitations (too small systems had to be chosen, or too
short averaging times had to be used). While this approach is
admittedly rather expensive, two cheaper alternatives have become
available, too: (i) array or vector processors specifical ly suited
for wide classes of simulation purposes; (ii) special purpose
processors, which are built for a more specific class of problems
or, in the extreme case, for the simulation of one single model
system."
Deals with the computer simulation of complex physical sys- tems
encounteredin condensed-matter physics and statistical mechanics as
well as in related fields such as metallurgy, polymer
research,lattice gauge theory and quantummechanics.
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.
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