Quantum Monte Carlo methods

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Name (Hebrew)
שיטות קוונטים מונטה קרלו
Name (Latin)
Quantum Monte Carlo methods
Name (Arabic)
الأساليب مونت كارلو الكمومية
Other forms of name
QMC methods
QMC techniques
Quantum Monte Carlo techniques
See Also From tracing topical name
Monte Carlo method
Quantum statistics
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q3861408
Library of congress: sh2020010011
Sources of Information
  • Work cat.: Richie-Halford, A. Quantum Monte Carlo studies of the BCS-BEC crossover, 2020:abstr. (quantum MonteCarlo techniques to determine the quasiparticle properties of infinite neutron matter, namely the effective mass, self-energy, and pairing gap) p. vii (QMC: quantum Monte Carlo) p. 18 (quantum Monte Carlo techniques required to accurately simulate Fermi gases near unitarity; quantum Monte Carlo methods) pp. 22-23 (Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods encompass all approaches that use classical Monte Carlo methods to estimate multi-dimensional integrals that arise while solving many-body quantum mechanics problems; QMC methods)
  • Pang, T. An introduction to quantum Monte Carlo methods, 2016:publ. website (Monte Carlo methods have been very prominent in computer simulation of various systems in physics, chemistry, biology, and materials science. This book focuses on the discussion and path-integral quantum Monte Carlo methods in many-body physics)
  • Kent, P.R.C. Techniques and applications of quantum Monte Carlo, 1999, via WWW, Nov. 16, 2020:1.2 (Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods treat electron-electron interactions almost without approximation and with a computational cost scaling cubically with system size. Their accuracy enables an unprecedented degree of confidence to be placed in the results obtained) 1.3 (QMC techniques) 2.1 (Quantum Monte Carlo techniques provide a direct and potentially efficient means for solving the many-body Schrödinger equation of quantum mechanics; Monte Carlo methods are statistical)
  • Foulkes, W.M.C. Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of solids, in Reviews of modern physics, Jan. 2001, via WWW, Nov. 16, 2020:abstr. (this article describes the variational and fixed-node diffusion quantum Monte Carlo methods and how they may be used to calculate the properties of many-electron systems) p. 34 (quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods; the term "quantum Monte Carlo" covers several different techniques based on random sampling)