1 Introduction: Purpose and Scope of This Volume, and Some

　　General Comments

2 Theoretical Foundations of the Monte Carlo Method

　　and Its Applications in Statistical Physics

　2.1 Simple Sampling Versus Importance Sampling

　2.1.1 Models

　2.1.2 Simple Sampling

　2.1.3 Random Walks and Self-Avoiding Walks

　2.1.4 Thermal Averages by the Simple Sampling Method

　2.1.5 Advantages and Limitations of Simple Sampling

　2.1.6 Importance Sampling

　2.1.7 More About Models and Algorithms

　2.2 Organization of Monte Carlo Programs, and the Dynamic

　　Interpretation of Monte Carlo Sampling

　2.2.1 First Comments on the Simulation of the Ising Model

　2.2.2 Boundary Conditions

　2.2.3 The Dynamic Interpretation of the Importance

　　Sampling Monte Carlo Method

　2.2.4 Statistical Errors and Time-Displaced Relaxation Functions

　2.3 Finite-Size Effects

　2.3.1 Finite-Size Effects at the Percolation Transition

　2.3.2 Finite-Size Scaling for the Percolation Problem

　2.3.3 Broken Symmetry and Finite-Size Effects

　　at Thermal Phase Transitions

　2.3.4 The Order Parameter Probability Distribution

　　and Its Use to Justify Finite-Size Scaling

　　and Phenomenological Renormalization

　2.3.5 Finite-Size Behavior of Relaxation Times

　2.3.6 Finite-Size Scaling Without "Hyperscaling"

　2.3.7 Finite-Size Scaling for First-Order Phase Transitions

　2.3.8 Finite-Size Behavior of Statistical Errors

　　and the Problem of Self-Averaging

　2.4 Remarks on the Scope of the Theory Chapter

3 Guide to Practical Work with the Monte Carlo Method

　3.1 Aims of the Guide

　3.2 Simple Sampling

　3.2.1 RandomWalk

　3.2.2 Nonreversal Random Walk

　3.2.3 Self-Avoiding Random Walk

　3.2.4 Percolation

　3.3 Biased Sampling

　3.3.1 Self-Avoiding Random Walk

　3.4 Importance Sampling

　3.4.1 Ising Model

　3.4.2 Serf-Avoiding Random Walk

4 Some Important Recent Developments of the Monte Carlo

　　Methodology

　4.1 Introduction

　4.2 Application of the Swendsen-Wang Cluster Algorithm

　　to the Ising Model

　4.3 Reweighting Methods in the Study of Phase Diagrams,

　　First-Order Phase Transitions, and Interfacial Tensions

　4.4 Some Comments on Advances with Finite-Size Scaling Analyses

5 Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations: An Introduction

　5.1 Quantum Statistical Mechanics Versus Classical

　　Statistical Mechanics

　5.2 The Path Integral Quantum Monte Carlo Method

　5.3 Quantum Monte Carlo for Lattice Models

　5.4 Concluding Remarks

6 Monte Carlo Methods for the Sampling of Free Energy Landscapes

　6.1 Introduction and Overview

　6.2 Umbrella Sampling

　6.3 Multicanonical Sampling and Other "Extended

　　Ensemble" Methods

　6.4 Wang-Landau Sampling

　6.5 Transition Path Sampling

　6.6 Concluding Remarks

Appendix

　A.1 Algorithm for the Random Walk Problem

　A.2 Algorithm for Cluster Identification

References

Bibliography

Subject Index