Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop Athens, Ga, Usa, February 22-27, 1998

ISBN-13: 9783642642555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 227 str.

David P. Landau; Heinz-Bernd Sch Ttler

Opis

This book represents a status report on the present knowledge reached in computational solid-state physics and is written by leading experts in this field. The various subfields are reviewed in a comprehensive and tutorial manner. This book is valuable for researchers and advanced students.

Spis treści

Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics: An Introduction.- I Disorder and Frustrated Systems.- Equilibrium and Off-Equilibrium Simulations of Chiral-Glass Order in Three-Dimensional Heisenberg Spin Glasses (With 8 Figures).- Ising Spins on 3D Random Lattices (With 2 Figures).- Magnetic Properties of the Highly Diluted Al-Fe Disordered System (With 3 Figures).- Monte Carlo Simulations of Frustrated Classical Spin Systems (With 2 Figures).- Overlap Barrier Calculations for Spin Glasses (With 2 Figures).- MC Study of the p-state Mean-Field Potts Glass (With 2 Figures).- The Random Transverse Field Ising Ferromagnet: The Simplest Disordered Model with a Quantum Phase Transition (With 6 Figures).- Quantum Monte Carlo Study of Random Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Chain (With 2 Figures).- Recent Results from Protein-Folding Simulations in Generalized Ensembles (With 4 Figures).- II Numerical Approaches to Quantum Systems.- From Finite Temperature Many-Body Perturbation Theory to Series Expansions and Monte Carlo Simulations (With 7 Figures) 71.- Stochastic Diagonalization (With 4 Figures).- Zero-Temperature Phase Transitions in Molecular Solids by Diffusion Monte Carlo(With 3 Figures).- III Thin Film Growth.- Chemical Diffusion, Wave Propagation, and Equistability in Lattice-Gas Models for Bistable Surface Reactions (With 4 Figures).- Numerical Surprises in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation.- IV Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena.- Ising Relaxation Dynamics: Series Expansion and Monte Carlo Simulation (With 2 Figures).- Non-equilibrium Relaxation Study of Critical Phenomena (With 2 Figures).- Hard Simulation Problems in the Modeling of Magnetic Materials: Parallelization and Langevin Micromagnetics (With 2 Figures).- Zeros of the Grand Partition Function of the Potts Model in a Magnetic Field (With 3 Figures).- Modeling FM/AFM/FM Trilayers with the 8-state Clock Model (With 3 Figures).- Monte Carlo Study of Oxygen Ordering in YBa2Cu306+x(With 4 Figures).- Boundary Conditions and Numbers of Clusters in Percolation Models (With 2 Figures).- Magnetic Properties of Finite 3D Ising Systems: a Microcanonical Approach (With 1 Figure).- V Methods.- Broad Histogram.- Invaded Cluster Algorithms for Equilibrium Critical Points (With 3 Figures).- Combinatorial Optimization: Old Results with New Ensembles, New Results with Old Ensembles (With 4 Figures).- Visualization for Molecular Dynamics of Solids.- How to Use Multiple CPUs on a Node with Little Effort (With 1 Figure).- VI Polymers and Glasses.- Atomistic Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Static and Dynamic Properties of a Polyethylene Melt (With 8 Figures).- Spatially-Correlated Dynamics in Glass-Forming Systems: Correlation Functions and Simulations (With 4 Figures).- List of Contributors.

O autorze

David P. Landau is the Distinguished Professor of Physics and Director of the Center for Simulational Physics at the University of Georgia.