Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics, XIV

by Landau, David P.; Lewis, S. P.; Schuttler, H. B.

• ISBN13: 9783540000877
• ISBN10: 3540000879
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

This book is a status report. It provides a broad overview of the most recent developments in the field, spanning a wide range of topical areas in simulational condensed matter physics. These areas include recent developments in simulations of classical statistical mechanics models, electronic structure calculations, quantum simulations, and simulations of polymers. Both new physical results and novel simulational and data analysis methods are presented. Some of the highlights of this volume include detailed accounts of recent theoretical developments in electronic structure calculations, novel quantum simulation techniques and their applications to strongly interacting lattice fermion models, and a wide variety of applications of existing methods as well as novel methods in the simulation of classical statistical mechanics models, including spin glasses and polymers.

Table of Contents

Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics: An Introduction	p. 1
Nonequilibrium and Dynamical Behavior
Nonequilibrium Energy Transport in Multiphase System	p. 7s
Dynamics of Dislocations in a Two-dimensional System	p. 12
Recent Development in Nonequilibrium Relaxation Method	p. 27
Dynamic Phase Diagram for a Periodically Driven Kinetic Ising Ferromagnet: Finite-size Scaling Evidence for the Absence of a Tri-critical Point	p. 34
First-Principles Parameter Estimation for Dynamic Monte Carlo of a Lattice-Gas Model	p. 40
Clusters, Films, and Interfaces
Gold Microclusters (Aun: n = 3-13): A Molecular Dynamics Computer Simulation	p. 47
On the Ground State Structure of Adsorbed Monolayers: Can One Find them by Monte Carlo Simulation?	p. 57
Simulation of the Early Stages of Growth on a Patterned Substrate	p. 61
Ions and Other Solutes at the Ice/Water Interface	p. 66
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Droplet Spreading Process for Metallic Phases: The Low Energy Cluster-Substrate Impacts	p. 70
Universal Expression for Blocking Cone Size in Low Energy Ion Scattering Based on MD Simulations	p. 77
Phase Transitions
Critical Phenomena at the Surface of Systems Undergoing a Bulk First Order Transition: Are They Understood?	p. 85
Analysis of the Density of Partition Function Zeroes: A Measure for Phase Transition Strength	p. 97
The Spectrum of Eigenvalues in the Renormalization Group Theory of Phase Transitions	p. 102
New Methods and Approaches
Methods for Computing Density of States for Statistical Mechanical Models	p. 113
New Cluster Method for the Ising Model	p. 123
Low Temperature Dynamic Monte Carlo Simulations with a Phonon Heat Bath for Square-Lattice Ising Ferromagnets	p. 134
Applications of the Probability-Changing Cluster Algorithm and Related Problems	p. 140
Exponential Product Computing-Scheme for Time-Dependent Interactions Including the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian	p. 154
Visualization and Real-Time Collaboration over Internet-2	p. 160
Quantum Systems / Electronic Structure
Chiral Symmetry Versus the Lattice	p. 169
The Stochastic Series Expansion Method for Quantum Lattice Models	p. 182
Superconductivity with a Meron-Cluster Algorithm	p. 188
Advances in the Investigation of the Minus Sign Problem for the Fermionic Case	p. 194
New Variational States for t-J Ladders	p. 200
Ab-initio Study of the Ground-State Phase Diagram of the Icosahedral Ti-Zr-Ni Quasicrystal	p. 204
Geometric Theory of Stress Fields for Quantum Systems at Finite Temperature	p. 209
Polymers and Complex Systems
Phase Behavior of Binary Polymer Blends in Thin Films	p. 217
Statistics of an Age Structured Population with Two Competing Species: Analytic and Monte Carlo Studies	p. 235
Including Hydrodynamic Interactions in Acicular Models of Magnetic Colloids	p. 255
Simulation of the Dynamics of Polymers in Solution via a Hybrid Molecular Dynamics-Lattice Boltzmann Scheme	p. 260
Frustrated Spring-Network Model for Crosslinked Polymer Surfaces	p. 265
The Wonderful World of Granular Ratchets	p. 270
List of Contributors	p. 275
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