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Path Integral Monte Carlo

Path Integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) is a computational method for calculating thermodynamic and structural properties of quantum systems using Feynman's path integral formulation. Developed rigorously by David Ceperley and colleagues in the 1990s, PIMC treats quantum particles as classical polymers in a higher-dimensional space, enabling efficient Monte Carlo sampling of quantum statistics.

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Path Integral Monte Carlo (PIMC)
Taxonomic method record · ml-model / quantum-computing
  • Feynman, R. P. (1948). Space-time approach to non-relativistic quantum mechanics. Reviews of Modern Physics, 20, 367–387. · DOI 10.1103/RevModPhys.20.367
  • Ceperley, D. M. (1995). Path integrals in the theory of condensed helium. Reviews of Modern Physics, 67, 279–355. · DOI 10.1103/RevModPhys.67.279
  • Trofimov, D., et al. (2020). Practical path integral Monte Carlo. Annual Review of Computational Physics, 2, 165–190. · URL
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