Stochastic Simulations of Clusters: Quantum Methods in Flat and Curved Spaces - Rilegato

Curotto, Emanuele

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ISBN 10: 1420082256 ISBN 13: 9781420082258

Casa editrice: CRC Press, 2009

Riassunto

Unravels Complex Problems through Quantum Monte Carlo Methods

Clusters hold the key to our understanding of intermolecular forces and how these affect the physical properties of bulk condensed matter. They can be found in a multitude of important applications, including novel fuel materials, atmospheric chemistry, semiconductors, nanotechnology, and computational biology. Focusing on the class of weakly bound substances known as van derWaals clusters or complexes, Stochastic Simulations of Clusters: Quantum Methods in Flat and Curved Spaces presents advanced quantum simulation techniques for condensed matter.

The book develops finite temperature statistical simulation tools and real-time algorithms for the exact solution of the Schrödinger equation. It draws on potential energy models to gain insight into the behavior of minima and transition states. Using Monte Carlo methods as well as ground state variational and diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) simulations, the author explains how to obtain temperature and quantum effects. He also shows how the path integral approach enables the study of quantum effects at finite temperatures.

To overcome timescale problems, this book supplies efficient and accurate methods, such as diagonalization techniques, differential geometry, the path integral method in statistical mechanics, and the DMC approach. Gleaning valuable information from recent research in this area, it presents special techniques for accelerating the convergence of quantum Monte Carlo methods.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Emanuele Curotto is a professor of chemistry at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: CRC Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1420082256
• ISBN 13: 9781420082258
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 696
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