Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics XIV: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop, Athens, GA, USA, February 19–24, 2001 (Springer Proceedings in Physics, 89)

This is a "status report" based on the presentations and discussions which took place during the 14th Annual Workshop on Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics at the Center for Simulational Physics at the University of Georgia in February 2001. It provides a broad overview of the most recent advances in the field, spanning a wide range of topical areas in simulational condensed matter physics. These include recent developments in simulations of classical statistical mechanics models, electronic structure calculations, quantum Monte Carlo simulations, and simulations of polymers. New physical results and novel simulational and data analysis methods are presented. Front Matter....Pages I-XII Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics: An Introduction....Pages 1-4 Front Matter....Pages 5-5 Nonequilibrium Energy Transport in Multiphase System....Pages 7-11 Dynamics of Dislocations in a Two-dimensional System....Pages 12-26 Recent Development in Nonequilibrium Relaxation Method....Pages 27-33 Dynamic Phase Diagram for a Periodically Driven Kinetic Square-lattice Ising Ferromagnet: Finite-size Scaling Evidence for the Absence of a Tri-critical Point....Pages 34-39 First-Principles Parameter Estimation for Dynamic Monte Carlo of a Lattice-Gas Model....Pages 40-44 Front Matter....Pages 45-45 Gold Microclusters (Au n ; n = 3–13): A Molecular Dynamics Computer Simulation....Pages 47-56 On the Ground State Structure of Adsorbed Monolayers: Can One Find them by Monte Carlo Simulation?....Pages 57-60 Simulation of the Early Stages of Growth on a Patterned Substrate....Pages 61-65 Ions and Other Solutes at the Ice/Water Interface....Pages 66-69 Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Droplet Spreading Process for Metallic Phases: The Low Energy Cluster-Substrate Impacts....Pages 70-76 Universal Expression for Blocking Cone Size in Low Energy Ion Scattering Based on MD Simulations....Pages 77-81 Front Matter....Pages 83-83 Critical Phenomena at the Surface of Systems Undergoing a Bulk First Order Transition: Are They Understood?....Pages 85-96 Analysis of the Density of Partition Function Zeroes: A Measure for Phase Transition Strength....Pages 97-101 The Spectrum of Eigenvalues in the Renormalization Group Theory of Phase Transitions....Pages 102-110 Front Matter....Pages 111-111 Methods for Computing Density of States for Statistical Mechanical Models....Pages 113-122 New Cluster Method for the Ising Model....Pages 123-133 Low Temperature Dynamic Monte Carlo Simulations with a Phonon Heat Bath for Square-Lattice Ising Ferromagnets....Pages 134-139 Applications of the Probability-Changing Cluster Algorithm and Related Problems....Pages 140-153 Exponential Product Computing-Scheme for Time-Dependent Interactions Including the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian....Pages 154-159 Front Matter....Pages 111-111 Visualization and Real-Time Collaboration over Internet-2....Pages 160-165 Front Matter....Pages 167-167 Chiral Symmetry Versus the Lattice....Pages 169-181 The Stochastic Series Expansion Method for Quantum Lattice Models....Pages 182-187 Superconductivity with a Meron-Cluster Algorithm....Pages 188-193 Advances in the Investigation of the Minus Sign Problem for the Fermionic Case....Pages 194-199 New Variational States for t - J Ladders....Pages 200-203 Ab-initio Study of the Ground-State Phase Diagram of the Icosahedral Ti-Zr-Ni Quasicrystal....Pages 204-208 Geometric Theory of Stress Fields for Quantum Systems at Finite Temperature....Pages 209-213 Front Matter....Pages 215-215 Phase Behavior of Binary Polymer Blends in Thin Films....Pages 217-234 Statistics of an Age Structured Population with Two Competing Species: Analytic and Monte Carlo Studies....Pages 235-254 Including Hydrodynamic Interactions in Acicular Models of Magnetic Colloids....Pages 255-259 Simulation of the Dynamics of Polymers in Solution via a Hybrid Molecular Dynamics-Lattice Boltzmann Scheme....Pages 260-264 Frustrated Spring-Network Model for Crosslinked Polymer Surfaces....Pages 265-269 The Wonderful World of Granular Ratchets....Pages 270-274 Back Matter....Pages 275-277 Over the last 30 years, Professor David P. Landau's trailblazing research achievements and influential leadership have helped establish computer sim­ ulation as a powerful and incisive mode of scientific investigation, now on a par in the physical sciences with experimental and theoretical research. This year, we were very pleased to organize a special one-day symposium honor­ ing the 60th birthday of our distinguished colleague and friend. This event was held in conjunction with and immediately following the annual computer simulations workshop that Professor Landau founded 14 years ago. Many of the papers presented at this honorary symposium are integrated into this pro­ ceedings volume, and the accompanying photograph of participants serves to commemorate this very special event. This volume contains both invited papers and contributed presentations on problems in both classical and quantum condensed matter physics. We hope that each reader will benefit from specialized results as well as profit from exposure to new algorithms, methods of analysis, and conceptual devel­ opments. Non-Equilibrium and Dynamical Behaviour Clusters, Films and Interfaces Phase Transitions New Methods and Approaches Quantum Systems/Electronic Structure Polymers and Complex Systems.