Heat capacity estimators for random series path-integral methods by finite-difference schemes

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 119, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 12119-12128

  Predescu, Cristian ^a   Sabo, Dubravko ^a   Doll, J D ^a   Freeman, David L ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Rhode Island   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM THEORY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

HEAT CAPACITY ESTIMATORS; QUANTUM MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; RANDOM SERIES PATH-INTEGRAL METHODS; T-METHOD ESTIMATOR;

SPECIFIC HEAT;

EID: 0347949907     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1625366     Document Type: Article

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