书名：Statistical Mechanics: Algorithms and Computations 统计力学：算法与计算

作者：Werner Krauth

出版社名称：Oxford University Press

出版时间：2006

语种：英语

ISBN：9780198515364

商品尺寸：24.4 x 19 x 1.8 cm

包装：平装

This book discusses the computational approach in modern statistical physics in a clear yet accessible way, and works out its intimate relations with other approaches in theoretical physics. Individual chapters focus on subjects as diverse as the hard sphere liquid, classical spin models, single quantum particles and Bose-Einstein condensation. They contain in-depth discussions of algorithms ranging from basic enumeration methods to modern Monte Carlo techniques. The

emphasis is on orientation. Discussions of implementation details are kept to a minimum.

The book heavily relies on illustrations, tables and concise printed algorithms to convey key information: all the material remains easily accessible. The book is fully self-contained: graphs and tables can be readily reproduced by programming at most a few dozen lines of computer code. Most sections lead from an elementary discussion to the rich and difficult problems of contemporary computational and statistical physics, and will be of interest to a wide range of students, teachers and

researchers in physics and the neigh*oring sciences. An accompanying CD allows to incorporate the layout material (illustrations, tables, schematic programs) into the reader's own presentations.

本书以清晰易懂的方式讨论了现代统计物理学中的计算方法，并阐明了它与理论物理学中其他方法的密切关系。各个章节的重点是硬球液体，经典自旋模型，单量子粒子和Bose-Einstein凝聚等主题。它们包含对算法的深入讨论，涉及从基本枚举方法到现代蒙特卡洛技术的各种算法。该

强调的是方向。实施细节的讨论保持在低限度。

这本书在很大程度上依赖于插图，表格和简洁的印刷算法来传达关键信息：所有材料仍然易于访问。这本书是完全独立的：通过编程最多几十行计算机代码，可以很容易地复制图形和表格。大多数部分从基本讨论出发，讨论了当代计算和统计物理学中的难题，而这些问题将引起

物理学和邻近科学领域的众多学生，教师和研究人员的兴趣。随附的CD允许将版面设计材料（插图，表格，示意图程序）合并到读者自己的演示文稿中。

Werner Krauth is Research Director at CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.