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Werner Krauth

(Laboratoire de physique statistique, École Normale Supérieure, Paris)

Statistical Mechanics: Algorithms and Computations

(Troisième cycle de la physique en Suisse Romande,

November-December, 2005)

24-Nov-2005: Monte-Carlo sampling, data analysis

• Lecture 1.1: Popular games in Monaco (pdf)

• Lecture 1.2: Basic sampling, data analysis (pdf)

• Lecture 1.3: Computing (pdf)

• Problems 1 (pdf)

• doeman-1st episode (.MOV file)

01-Dec-2005: Classical hard spheres and disks

• Lecture 2.1: Newton's classical mechanics (pdf)

• Lecture 2.2: Boltzmann's statistical mechanics (pdf)

• Lecture 2.3: Pressure, Boltzmann distribution (pdf)

• Lecture 2.4: Hard sphere cluster algorithms (pdf)

• Problems 2 (pdf)

08-Dec-2005: Quantum statistical mechanics

• Lecture 3.1: Density matrices, path integrals (pdf)

• Lecture 3.2: Bosons, Bose-Einstein condensation (pdf)

• Problems 3 (pdf)

15-Dec-2005: Order and disorder in spin systems

• Lecture 4.1: Enumerations (pdf)

• Lecture 4.2: Monte Carlo methods (pdf)

• Lecture 4.3: The A and O of Monte Carlo simulations (pdf)

• Problems 4 (pdf)