Computational Statistical Physics : From Billiards to Monte Carlo /

In recent years statistical physics has made significant progress as a result of advances in numerical techniques. While good textbooks exist on the general aspects of statistical physics, the numerical methods and the new developments based on large-scale computing are not usually adequately presen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hoffmann, K.-H. (Karl-Heinz)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Schreiber, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • From the contents: Percolation, Renormalization and the Quantum-Hall Transition
  • Financial Time Series and Statistical Mechanics
  • Characterization of the Metal-Insulator Transition in the Anderson Model of Localization
  • Nonlinear Dynamics of Active Brownian Particles
  • Quantum Phase Transitions
  • Aperiodicity and Disorder
  • Does it Matter?- Introduction to Energy-Level Statistics
  • Randomness in Optical Spectra of Semiconductor Nanostructures.