内容简介
Thissecondeditiondescribesthecomputationalmethodsusedintheoreticalphysics,andhasbeenfullyupdated.NewsectionshavebeenaddedtocoverfiniteelementmethodsandlatticeBoltzmannsimulation,densityfunctionaltheory,quantummoleculardynamics,MonteCarlosimulation,anddiagonalisationofone-dimensionalquantumsystems.Itcoversmanydifferentareasofphysicsresearchanddifferentcomputationalmethodologies,includingcomputationalmethodssuchasMonteCarloandmoleculardynamics,variouselectronicstructuremethodologies,methodsforsolvingpartialdifferentialequations,andlatticegaugetheory.Throughoutthebooktherelationsbetweenthemethodsusedindifferentfieldsofphysicsareemphasised.Severalnewprogramsaredescribedandcanbedownloadedfromwww.cambridge.org/9780521833462.Thebookrequiresabackgroundinelementaryprogramming,numericalanalysis,andfieldtheory,aswellasundergraduateknowledgeoncondensedmattertheoryandstatisticalphysics.Itwillbeofinteresttograduatestudentsandresearchersintheoretical,computationalandexperimentalphysics.