Course description

This course covers advanced numerical simulation techniques used in computational physics and their application to several physical problems. Topics covered include the solution of few-body classical dynamics, quantum mechanical eigenproblems, Monte Carlo techniques, the Metropolis algorithm, and classical models of magnetism. The course will cover some topics in advanced C++ programming, including floating point numbers, vectorisation, optimisation, parallelisation, and debugging techniques. The course requires the use of C++, and this will be introduced from scratch.

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