Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics XVIII: Proceedings of the Eighteenth Workshop, Athens, GA, USA, March 7-11, 2005 (Springer Proceedings in Physics, 105)

This volume represents a "status report" emanating from presentations made during the 18 th Annual Workshop on Computer Simulations Studies in Condensed Matter Physics at the Center for Simulational Physics at the University of Georgia in March 2005. It provides a broad overview of the most recent advances in the field, spanning the range from statistical physics to soft condensed matter and biological systems. Results on nanostructures and materials are included as are several descriptions of advances in quantum simulations and quantum computing as well as.methodological advances. Front Matter....Pages I-IX Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics: An Introduction....Pages 1-3 Front Matter....Pages 5-5 Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of the Impurity-Induced Phase Transitions in Low-Dimensional Magnets....Pages 7-12 Quantum World-line Monte Carlo Method with Non-binary Loops and Its Application....Pages 13-26 Event-by-Event Simulation of Quantum Phenomena....Pages 27-31 Deterministic Event-based Simulation of Universal Quantum Computation....Pages 32-36 Front Matter....Pages 37-37 Unstable Crack Motion is Predictable....Pages 39-45 First Principles Theory of Nano-Materials, Spintronic Materials, and Nano-Spintronic Materials....Pages 46-57 Advances in Monte Carlo Simulations of Nanostructured Materials....Pages 58-70 Molecular Dynamics Study of Atomic Displacements and X-Ray Diffuse Scattering....Pages 71-75 Front Matter....Pages 77-77 A Note on Stable States of Dipolar Systems at Low Temperatures....Pages 79-83 Low-Temperature Phase Boundary of Dilute Lattice Spin Glasses....Pages 84-89 Simulation Study of Gas-Liquid Interface....Pages 90-95 Dynamic Scaling of a Cluster Growth Process far from Equilibrium....Pages 96-100 Analysis of the Blume-Capel Model with the Wang-Landau Algorithm....Pages 101-106 Aging at Criticality in Models with Absorbing States....Pages 107-111 Size Dispersity Effects on the Two-Dimensional Melting....Pages 112-118 Front Matter....Pages 119-119 Asynchronously Parallelised Percolation on Distributed Machines....Pages 121-125 Applications of AViz in Undergraduate Education....Pages 126-130 Synchronous Sublattice Algorithm for Parallel Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations....Pages 131-136 Performance and Improvements of Flat-histogram Monte Carlo Simulations....Pages 137-141 Front Matter....Pages 143-143 Monte Carlo Study of the Isotropic-Nematic Interface in Suspensions of Spherocylinders....Pages 145-158 Langevin Dynamics Study of Polymer Translocation through a Nanopore....Pages 159-164 Invasive Allele Spread under Preemptive Competition....Pages 165-170 Back Matter....Pages 171-173 Almost two decadesago,becauseof the tremendousincreaseinthe powerand utility of computer simulations,The University of Georgiaformed the?rst - stitutionalunitdevotedtotheuseofsimulationsinresearchandteaching:The Center for Simulational Physics. As the international simulations community expanded further, we sensed a need for a meeting place for both experienced simulators and neophytes to discuss new techniques and recent results in an environment which promoted lively discussion. As a consequence, the Center for Simulational Physics established an annual workshop on Recent Devel- ments in Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics. This year's workshop was the eighteenth in this series, and the continued int- est shown by the scienti?c community demonstrates quite clearly the useful purpose that these meetings have served. The latest workshop was held at The University of Georgia, March 7–11, 2005, and these proceedings provide a “status report” on a number of important topics. This volume is published with the goal of timely dissemination of the material to a wider audience. We wish to o?er a special thanks to IBM for partial support of this year's workshop. 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 bene?t from specialized results as well as pro?t from exposure to new algorithms, methods of analysis, and conceptual dev- opments. Athens, GA, USA D. P. Landau October 2005 S. P. Lewis H. -B.

This volume represents a "status report" emanating from presentations made during the 18th Annual Workshop on Computer Simulations Studies in Condensed Matter Physics at the Center for Simulational Physics at the University of Georgia in March 2005. It provides a broad overview of the most recent advances in the field, spanning the range from statistical physics to soft condensed matter and biological systems. Results on nanostructures and materials are included as are several descriptions of advances in quantum simulations and quantum computing as well as.methodological advances.

This volume represents a "status report" emanating from presentations made during the 18th Annual Workshop on Computer Simulations Studies in Condensed Matter Physics at the Center for Simulational Physics at the University of Georgia in March 2005. It provides a broad overview of the most recent advances in the field, spanning the range from statistical physics to soft condensed matter and biological systems. Results on nanostructures and materials are included as are several descriptions of advances in quantum simulations and quantum computing as well as methodological advances This status report features the most recent developments in the field, spanning a wide range of topical areas in the computer simulation of condensed matter/materials physics.