Path integral Monte Carlo simulation of charged particles in traps
Abstract
This chapter is devoted to the computation of equilibrium (thermodynamic) properties of quantum systems. In particular, we will be interested in the situation where the interaction between particles is so strong that it cannot be treated as a small perturbation. For weakly coupled systems many efficient theoretical and computational techniques do exist. However, for strongly interacting systems such as nonideal gases or plasmas, strongly correlated electrons and so on, perturbation methods fail and alternative approaches are needed. Among them, an extremely successful one is the Monte Carlo (MC) method which we are going to consider in this chapter.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0611558,
title = {Path integral Monte Carlo simulation of charged particles in traps},
author = {Alexei Filinov and Jens Böning and Michael Bonitz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0611558},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
18 pages, based on talks on Hareaus school on computational methods, Greifswald, September 2006