Monte Carlo Methods

Sujaul Chowdhury is a Professor in the Department of Physics at the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Sylhet, Bangladesh (www.sust.edu). He obtained a B.Sc. (Honours) in Physics in 1994 and an M.Sc. in Physics in 1996 from SUST. He obtained a Ph.D. in Physics from The University of Glasgow, UK in 2001. He was a Humboldt Research Fellow for one year at The Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart, Germany.

• Introduction.- Evaluation of Definite Integrals Using the Monte Carlo Method.- Variational Monte Carlo Method Applied to the Ground State of a Simple Harmonic Oscillator.- Variational Monte Carlo Method Applied to the Ground State of a Hydrogen Atom.- Concluding Remarks.- Bibliography.- Author's Biography.