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What will we find if we measure the energy of a system? The focus of this chapter is finding the expectation value of any random variable - energy or another property — by Monte Carlo methods.
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(2007). The Monte Carlo Approach. In: Lim, C., Nebus, J. (eds) Vorticity, Statistical Mechanics, and Monte Carlo Simulation. Springer Monographs in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-49431-9_4
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