Table of Contents

1 Basics, quantum Monte Carlo and statistical mechanics.- 2 Stochastic diagonalization.- 3 World-line quantum Monte Carlo.- 4 Variational Monte Carlo in solids.- 5 Variational Monte Carlo basics and applications to atoms and molecules.- 6 Calculations of exchange frequencies with path integral Monte Carlo: solid 3He adsorbed on graphite.- 7 Static response of homogeneous quantum fluids by diffusion Monte Carlo.- 8 Equilibrium and dynamical path integral methods: an introduction.- 9 Diffusion Monte Carlo.- 10 Fermion Monte Carlo.- 11 Quantum Monte Carlo in nuclear physics.- 12 Reptation quantum Monte Carlo: a round-trip tour from classical diffusion to quantum mechanics.- 13 Quantum Monte Carlo for lattice fermions.- 14 Phase separation in the 2D Hubbard model: a challenging application of fixed-node QMC.- 15 Constrained path Monte Carlo for fermions.- 16 Serial and parallel random number generation.- 17 Fixed-node DMC for fermions on a lattice: application to doped fullerides.- 18 Index.

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