One of Feynman's early applications of path integrals was to superfluid He 4. He showed
that the thermodynamic properties of Bose systems are exactly equivalent to those of a …

We review a theory of freezing based on the density-functional approach andcompare a
variety of its versions. The application of the theory to the freezing of various simple and …

Starting from first principles, this book introduces the closely related phenomena of Bose
condensation and Cooper pairing, in which a very large number of single particles or pairs …

These lecture notes introduce quantum spin systems and several computational methods for
studying their ground‐state and finite‐temperature properties. Symmetry‐breaking and …

The normal and superfluid densities are defined by the response of a liquid to sample
boundary motion. The free-energy change due to uniform boundary motion can be …

Feynman's path integral formulation of quantum statistical mechanics (1) makes possible the
computer simulation of quantum many-body systems of chemical and physical interest [(2a …

The essential ideas underlying ab initio path integral molecular dynamics and its efficient
numerical implementation are discussed. In this approach the nuclei are treated as quantum …

New kinds of intermediate flux states should be accessible in high-T c superconductors, in
fields slightly above H c 1. Flux-line wandering leads to an entangled vortex state whose …

The knowledge of the nodes of the many-fermion wave function would enable exact
calculation of the properties of fermion systems by Monte Carlo methods. It is proved that …

A detailed description is provided of a new worm algorithm, enabling the accurate
computation of thermodynamic properties of quantum many-body systems in continuous …