Teaching Monte-Carlo simulation with pocket calculators
- 1 October 1980
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in European Journal of Physics
- Vol. 1 (4) , 211-216
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0143-0807/1/4/005
Abstract
To introduce the Monte-Carlo methods used in computer simulations, the authors first discuss a simple program to produce random numbers. Then they describe some programs of increasing complexity using this random number generator: random occupation of sites, random walk in two dimensions and Ising models in one and three dimensions. All these programs can be used with a programmable pocket calculator.Keywords
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