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Numerical Simulation in Quantum Field Theory

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An introductory discussion of quantum field theory as the theoretical framework for particle physics and the standard model is given. For the simplified scalar field sector, the lattice formulation and nonperturbative evaluation by Monte Carlo simulation are described. A FORTRAN package is included that allows the simulation of this model for arbitrary dimension.

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  1. Institut für Physik der HUB, Computerphysik, Humboldt Universität, D-10099, Berlin, Germany

    Ulli Wolff

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  1. Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Chemnitz-Zwickau, D-09107, Chemnitz, Germany

    Karl Heinz Hoffmann  & Michael Schreiber  & 

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Wolff, U. (1996). Numerical Simulation in Quantum Field Theory. In: Hoffmann, K.H., Schreiber, M. (eds) Computational Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85238-1_14

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