An introduction to applied quantum mechanics in the Wigner Monte Carlo formalism

DOI10.1016/j.physrep.2015.03.001zbMath1357.81133OpenAlexW2048121558WikidataQ62600587 ScholiaQ62600587MaRDI QIDQ516728

J. M. Sellier, M. Nedjalkov, Ivan T. Dimov

Publication date: 15 March 2017

Published in: Physics Reports (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physrep.2015.03.001

zbMATH Keywords

Wigner equationMonte Carlo methodsquantum mechanicsdensity functional theoryquantum chemistryelectron transportstrongly correlated systemsquantum many-body problemab-initio methodsmesoscopic physics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

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