This proceedings volume provides researchers as well as newcomers to the field with an overview of the most important recent results in computer simulation studies in condensed-matter physics. It presents new physical results and elucidates the latest simulation techiques and new ways of interpreting simulation data in both classical and quantum systems.

Inhalt
Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics: An Introduction.- I Classical Systems.- Ising-Model Relaxation as Testing Ground for Modern Computers.- Large-Scale Lattice-Gas Simulations: A Case Study in Parallel Programming.- Vibrated Granular Assemblies: Fluidization and Convection.- Simulation and Visualization of Dynamic Recrystallization in Polycrystals.- II Quantum Systems.- Dynamic Anomalies and Scaling in the Infinite-Dimensional Hubbard Model.- Higher-Order Decomposition Theory of Exponential Operators and Its Applications to QMC and Nonlinear Dynamics.- Bayesian Inference and Computer Simulations.- Phase Transitions in Adsorbates with Internal Quantum States.- Vertex Models and Quantum-Spin Systems: A Nonlocal Approach.- Ground-State Projection with Auxiliary Fields: Imaginary-Time and Simulation-Time Dynamics.- III Contributed Papers.- Lattice Boltzmann Simulations of the Kinetics of Domain Growth in Porous Media.- Irreversible Multilayer Adsorption.- Dynamic Damage-Spreading Properties for the Ising Model.- Multicanonical Simulation of the van Hemmen Spin Glass.- A Monte-Carlo Study of the Driven Transport in a Non-Equilibrium Steady-State (NESS) System.- Front Propagation, Interfacial Growth and Pinning in a Computer-Simulation Model.- Monte-Carlo Simulation of Urea Electrosorption on Platinum.- Prediction of Peptide Conformation by the Multicanonical Algorithm.- Study of ± J Ising Spin Glasses via Multicanonical Ensemble.- Markov-Property Applications to Ising Model Calculations.- New Ensembles for Constant-Chemical-Potential Simulations.- Computer Studies of the Baxter-Wu Model: Algorithms, Corrections to Scaling, and Regular Impurities.- Diluted Heisenberg Ferromagnets with Competing Ferro- and Antiferromagnetic Interactions: Evidencefor a New Universality Class?.- Quantum Monte Carlo with Complex Weights.- Decoupled-Cell Monte-Carlo Calculations of Critical Properties of the Spin-1/2 Heisenberg Model.- Simulating the Euclidean Time Schrödinger Equation Using an Intel iPSC/860 Hypercube: Application to the t J Model of High-Tc Superconductivity.- Index of Contributors.