Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics XI : Proceedings of the 11th Workshop Athens, GA, U. S. A., February 22-27, 1998

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

• ISBN13: 9783540655190
• ISBN10: 3540655190
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Represents a status report on the present knowledge reached in computational solid-state physics. Contains problems in both classical and quantum condensed matter physics.

Table of Contents

Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics: An Introduction	1	(6)
D.P. Landau
H.-B. Schuttler
Part I Disorder and Frustrated Systems	7	(64)
Equilibrium and Off-Equilibrium Simulations of Chiral-Glass Order in Three-Dimensional Heisenberg Spin Glasses (With 8 Figures)	7	(15)
H. Kawamura
K. Hukushima
Ising Spins on 3D Random Lattices (With 2 Figures)	22	(5)
W. Janke
R. Villanova
Magnetic Properties of the Highly Diluted Al-Fe Disordered System (With 3 Figures)	27	(5)
J. Restrepo
G.A. Perez Alcazar
J.M. Gonzalez
Monte Carlo Simulations of Frustrated Classical Spin Systems (With 2 Figures)	32	(5)
M. Enjalran
R.T. Scalettar
S.M. Kauzlarich
Overlap Barrier Calculations for Spin Glasses (With 2 Figures)	37	(5)
B.A. Berg
MC Study of the p-state Mean-Field Potts Glass (With 2 Figures)	42	(5)
O. Dillmann
W. Janke
K. Binder
The Random Transverse Field Ising Ferromagnet: The Simplest Disordered Model with a Quantum Phase Transition (With 6 Figures)	47	(10)
A.P. Young
C. Pich
Quantum Monte Carlo Study of Random Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Chain (With 2 Figures)	57	(5)
S. Todo
K. Kato
H. Takayama
Recent Results from Protein-Folding Simulations in Generalized Ensembles (With 4 Figures)	62	(9)
U.H.E. Hansmann
Part II Numerical Approaches to Quantum Systems	71	(32)
From Finite Temperature Many-Body Perturbation Theory to Series Expansions and Monte Carlo Simulations (With 7 Figures)	71	(13)
N. Elstner
A.W. Sandvik
R.R.P. Singh
Stochastic Diagonalization (With 4 Figures)	84	(12)
H. De Raedt
K. Michielsen
Zero-Temperature Phase Transitions in Molecular Solids by Diffusion Monte Carlo (With 3 Figures)	96	(7)
M.H. Muser
Part III Thin Film Growth	103	(22)
Chemical Diffusion, Wave Propagation, and Equistability in Lattice-Gas Models for Bistable Surface Reactions (With 4 Figures)	103	(15)
J.W. Evans
M. Tammaro
Numerical Surprises in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation	118	(7)
T.J. Newman
Part IV Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena	125	(44)
Ising Relaxation Dynamics: Series Expansion and Monte Carlo Simulation (With 2 Figures)	125	(5)
J.-S. Wang
Non-equilibrium Relaxation Study of Critical Phenomena (With 2 Figures)	130	(4)
N. Ito
Hard Simulation Problems in the Modeling of Magnetic Materials: Parallelization and Langevin Micromagnetics (With 2 Figures)	134	(6)
G. Korniss
G. Brown
M.A. Novotny
P.A. Rikvold
Zeros of the Grand Partition Function of the Potts Model in a Magnetic Field (With 3 Figures)	140	(5)
S.-Y. Kim
R.J. Creswick
Modeling FM/AFM/FM Trilayers with the 8-state Clock Model (With 3 Figures)	145	(5)
P.D. Scholten
V. Ranjbar
Monte Carlo Study of Oxygen Ordering in YBa(2)Cu(3)O(6+x) (With 4 Figures)	150	(5)
D. Monster
P.-A. Lindgard
N.H. Andersen
Boundary Conditions and Numbers of Clusters in Percolation Models (With 2 Figures)	155	(6)
C.-K. Hu
Magnetic Properties of Finite 3D Ising Systems: a Microcanonical Approach (With 1 Figure)	161	(8)
M. Kastner
M. Promberger
A. Huller
Part V Methods	169	(28)
Broad Histogram	169	(3)
P.M.C. de Oliveira
Invaded Cluster Algorithms for Equilibrium Critical Points (With 3 Figures)	172	(8)
J. Machta
Y. Choi
Combinatorial Optimization: Old Results with New Ensembles, New Results with Old Ensembles (With 4 Figures)	180	(6)
J.R. Ray
Visualization for Molecular Dynamics of Solids	186	(5)
J. Adler
A. Hashibon
A. Kanigel
I. Rosenblum
D. Saada
How to Use Multiple CPUs on a Node with Little Effort (With 1 Figure)	191	(6)
G. Bhanot
Part VI Polymers and Glasses	197	(31)
Atomistic Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Static and Dynamic Properties of a Polyethylene Melt (With 8 Figures)	197	(15)
W. Paul
Spatially-Correlated Dynamics in Glass-Forming Systems: Correlation Functions and Simulations (With 4 Figures)	212	(16)
S.C. Glotzer
C. Donati
P.H. Poole
List of Contributors	228