PIMD is "widely used to describe nuclear quantum effects in chemistry and physics".
Path Integral Molecular Dynamics can be applied to polymer physics, both field theories, quantum and not, string theory, stochastic dynamics, quantum mechanics, and quantum gravity. PIMD can also be used to calculate time correlation functions
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