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In the last chapter, we showed that in many cases, the computation of properties of mechanical systems with many variables reduces to the evaluation of averages with respect to the canonical density \({e}^{-\beta H}/Z\). We now show how such calculations can be done, using the Ising model as an example.
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Chorin, A.J., Hald, O.H. (2013). Computational Statistical Mechanics. In: Stochastic Tools in Mathematics and Science. Texts in Applied Mathematics, vol 58. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6980-3_8
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