Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics IV

These proceedings provide reseachers and students with an excellent overview of the most important recent progress in computer simulation studies in condensed-matter physics. Simulation of classical and quantum systems and Monte Carlo techniques together with special purpose computers are particularly emphasized.

Inhalt
Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics: An Introduction.- I Classical Systems.- Phase Transitions in Classical Fluids and Fluids with Internal Quantum States in Two Dimensions: Computer Simulations and Theory.- Monte Carlo Simulations of Dilute Ising Models.- A New Numerical Method to Study Phase Transitions.- Fluctuations in a Kinetic Ising Model.- Critical Phenomena of Ising-Like Heisenberg Antiferromagnets on the Hexagonal Lattices.- Numerical Studies of the Dynamics of Unstable Interfaces.- Special-Purpose Computers for the Random Ising Model.- Monte Carlo Simulations of Glycoproteins.- II Quantum Systems.- Simulating Spin-Fermion Systems: Kondo Lattice Results.- Critical Properties of Strongly Interacting Bosons on a Lattice.- Thoughts on Using Variational Wavefunctions to Study Hubbard Models.- III Contributed Papers.- Modelling of Orientational Ordering in Lipid Monolayers.- Molecular Dynamics Study of the Phase Diagram of Silver Iodide.- Histogram Monte Carlo Study of Phase Transitions in a Highly Degenerate System.- Theory of the Critical Current Density in YBa2Cu3O7 Ceramics.- A Molecular Dynamics Study of the Low-Temperature Structure of RbC24 Stage-2 Graphite Intercalation Compound.- Simulations of Planar Vesicles and Their Transitions.- Finite-Size Effects Near First-Order Phase Transitions in Systems That Belong to Different Universality Classes.- An Effective Dimension from Finite Size Scaling.- Nonlinear Excitations in Magnetic Chains.- Multi-Hit Swendsen-Wang Monte Carlo Algorithm.- Index of Contributors.