Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics XII

Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics: An Introduction.- I Electronic Structure and Quantum Monte Carlo.- Beyond Wavelets: Exactness Theorems for Physical Calculations.- Screening of a Point Charge: A Fixed-Node Diffusion Monte Carlo Study.- Quantum Simulations of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems.- Competing Effects in Perovskite Manganites: Ferromagnetism vs. Phase Separation.- II Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena.- Critical Finite-Size Scaling with Constraints: Fisher Renormalization ReXIsited.- Monte Carlo Simulation of Spin Models with Long-Range Interactions.- Phase DVAgram of the Spin-3/2 Blume-Capel Model.- Dynamic Phase Transition and Hysteresis in Kinetic Ising Models.- Application of the 8-State Clock Model to FM/AFM/FM Trilayers.- Monte Carlo Study of Critical Point Shifts in Thin Films.- Incipient Spanning Clusters in Square and Cubic Percolation.- III Spin Glasses.- BivarVAte Multicanonical Monte Carlo of the 3D ±J Spin Glass.- Monte Carlo Simulation of the Three-Dimensional Ising Spin Glass.- IV Computer Simulation Methods.- Molecular Dynamics Simulations with IMD.- Further Applications of the Broad Histogram Method for Continuous Systems.- to the Propp-Wilson Method of Exact Sampling for the Ising Model.- Magnetic Properties of Finite Systems: Microcanonical Finite-Size Scaling.- Molecular Dynamic Simulation of Directional Crystal Growth.- V Polymers and Surfactants.- Escape Transition of a Grafted Polymer Chain.- Monte Carlo Simulations of Model Nonionic Surfactants.- A New Model to Simulate the Growth of Branched Polymers.- Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Adsorption of Single Chains on Surfaces.

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