Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics III

These proBeedings provide researchers and students with an excellent overview of the most important recent progress in computer simulation studies in condensed matter physics. Simulations of disorder phenomena and Monte Carlo techniques are particularly emphasized.

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.