ISBN: 3-540-65519-0
TITLE: Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics XI
AUTHOR: Landau, David P.; Schttler, Heinz-Bernd (Eds.)
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Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics: An Introduction
By D.P. Landau and H.-B. Schttler 1
Part I Disorder and Frustrated Systems
Equilibrium and Off-Equilibrium Simulations of Chiral-Glass Order in Three-Dimensional Heisenberg Spin Glasses
By H. Kawamura and K. Hukushima (With 8 Figures) 7
Ising Spins on 3D Random Lattices
By W. Janke and R. Villanova (With 2 Figures) 22
Magnetic Properties of the Highly Diluted Al-Fe Disordered System
By J. Restrepo, G.A. Prez Alczar, and J.M. Gonzlez (With 3 Figures) 27
Monte Carlo Simulations of Frustrated Classical Spin Systems
By M. Enjalran, R.T. Scalettar, and S.M. Kauzlarich (With 2 Figures) 32
Overlap Barrier Calculations for Spin Glasses
By B.A. Berg (With 2 Figures) 37
MC Study of the p-state Mean-Field Potts Glass
By O. Dillmann, W. Janke, and K. Binder (With 2 Figures) 42
The Random Transverse Field Ising Ferromagnet: The Simplest Disordered Model with a Quantum Phase Transition
By A.P. Young and C. Pich (With 6 Figures) 47
Quantum Monte Carlo Study of Random Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Chain
By S. Todo, K. Kato, and H. Takayama (With 2 Figures) 57
Recent Results from Protein-Folding Simulations in Generalized Ensembles
By U.H.E. Hansmann (With 4 Figures) 62
Part II Numerical Approaches to Quantum Systems
From Finite Temperature Many-Body Perturbation Theory to Series Expansions and Monte Carlo Simulations
By N. Elstner, A.W. Sandvik, and R.R.P. Singh (With 7 Figures) 71
Stochastic Diagonalization
By H. De Raedt and K. Michielsen (With 4 Figures) 84
Zero-Temperature Phase Transitions in Molecular Solids by Diffusion Monte Carlo
By M.H. Mser (With 3 Figures) 96
Part III Thin Film Growth
Chemical Diffusion, Wave Propagation, and Equistability in Lattice-Gas Models for Bistable Surface Reactions
By J.W. Evans and M. Tammaro (With 4 Figures) 103
Numerical Surprises in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation
By T.J. Newman 118
Part IV Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena
Ising Relaxation Dynamics: Series Expansion and Monte Carlo Simulation
By J.-S. Wang (With 2 Figures) 125
Non-equilibrium Relaxation Study of Critical Phenomena
By N. Ito (With 2 Figures) 130
Hard Simulation Problems in the Modeling of Magnetic Materials: Parallelization and Langevin Micromagnetics
By G. Komiss, G. Brown, M.A. Novotny, and P.A. Rikvold (With 2 Figures) 134
Zeros of the Grand Partition Function of the Potts Model in a Magnetic Field
By S.-Y. Kim and R.J. Creswick (With 3 Figures) 140
Modeling FM/AFM/FM Trilayers with the 8-state Clock Model
By P.D. Scholten and V. Ranjbar (With 3 Figures) 145
Monte Carlo Study of Oxygen Ordering in YBa_2Cu_3O_{6+x}
By D. Mnster, P.-A. Lindgard, and N.H. Andersen (With 4 Figures) 150
Boundary Conditions and Numbers of Clusters in Percolation Models 
By C.-K. Hu (With 2 Figures) 155
Magnetic Properties of Finite 3D Ising Systems: a Microcanonical Approach
By M. Kastner, M. Promberger, and A. Hller (With 1 Figure) 161
Part V Methods
Broad Histogram
By P.M.C. de Oliveira 169
Invaded Cluster Algorithms for Equilibrium Critical Points
By J. Machta and Y. Choi (With 3 Figures) 172
Combinatorial Optimization: Old Results with New Ensembles, New Results with Old Ensembles
By J.R. Ray (With 4 Figures) 180
Visualization for Molecular Dynamics of Solids
By J. Adler, A. Hashibon, A. Kanigel, I. Rosenblum, and D. Saada 186
How to Use Multiple CPUs on a Node with Little Effort
By G. Bhanot (With 1 Figure) 191
Part VI Polymers and Glasses
Atomistic Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Static and Dynamic Properties of a Polyethylene Melt
By W. Paul (With 8 Figures) 197
Spatially-Correlated Dynamics in Glass-Forming Systems: Correlation Functions and Simulations
By S.C. Glotzer, C. Donati, and P.H. Poole (With 4 Figures) 212
List of Contributors 228
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