The contribution of computer simulation studies to our understanding of the prop­ erties of a wide range of condensed matter systems is now weIl established. The Center for Simulational Physics of the University of Georgia has been hosting a series of annual workshops with the intent of bringing together experienced prac­ titioners in the field, as weIl as relative newcomers, to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and recent results. This year's workshop, the third in the series, was held February 12-16, 1990. These proceedings are arecord of the workshop and are published with the goal of timely dissemination of the papers to a wider audience. The proceedings are divided into four parts. The first contains invited pa­ pers dealing with simulational studies of classical systems and also includes an introduction to some new simulation techniques. Aseparate section is devoted to invited papers on quantum systems, including new results for strongly correlated electron and quantum spin models believed to be important for the description of high-Tc superconductors. The third part consists of a single invited paper, which presents a comprehensive treatment of issues associated with high perfor­ mance computing, including differences in architectures and a discussion of access strategies. The contributed papers constitute the final part.

Inhalt

Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics: An Introduction.- I Classical Systems.- Simulation of Order-Disorder Phenomena and Diffusion in Metallic Alloys.- Monte Carlo Analysis of the Ising Model and CAM.- Histogram Techniques for Studying Phase Transitions.- Classification of Cellular Automata.- Simulation Studies of Classical and Non-classical Nucleation.- Molecular Dynamics of Slow Viscous Flows.- Computer Simulations for Polymer Dynamics.- Computer Simulation Studies of Phase Transitions in Two-Dimensional Systems of Molecules with Internal Degrees of Freedom.- II Quantum Systems.- Numerical Evaluation of Candidate Wavefunctions for High-Temperature Superconductivity.- Two-Dimensional Quantum Antiferromagnet at Low Temperatures.- Binding of Holes in the Hubbard Model.- The Average Spectrum Method for the Analytic Continuation of Imaginary-Time Data.- III High Performance Computing.- High Performance Computing in Academia: A Perspective.- IV Contributed Papers.- Finite-Size Scaling Study of the Simple Cubic Three-State Potts Glass.- Numerical Transfer Matrix Studies of Ising Models.- A Computer Simulation of Polymers with Gaussian Couplings: Modeling Protein Folding?.- Numerical Studies of Absorption of Water in Polymers.- Almost Markov Processes.- Vectorization of Diffusion of Lattice Gases Without Double Occupancy of Sites.- Ising Machine, m-TIS.- Monte Carlo Analysis of Finite-Size Effects in the Three-Dimensional Three-State Potts Model.- Simulation Studies of Oxygen Ordering in YBa2Cu3O7?? and Related Systems.- Index of Contributors.