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Journal of Yancheng Institute of Technology

Monte Carlo Simulations of Quantum Integrations

Shi You

Published Jan 1, 2002• 0 citations
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Abstract

Integrations in quantum calculations are formulated by a same form equation. Effect of calculations and stability of results are raised by using Monte Carlo method and putting all integrations in a same for-loop.

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