Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics XVIII (eBook)

Preface 6
Contents 7
1 Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics: An Introduction 10
Quantum Simulations and Quantum Computing Nanostructures 13
2 Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of the Impurity- Induced Phase Transitions in Low- Dimensional Magnets 14
3 Quantum World-line Monte Carlo Method with Non- binary Loops and Its Application 20
4 Event-by-Event Simulation of Quantum Phenomena 34
5 Deterministic Event-based Simulation of Universal Quantum Computation 39
Materials and Nanostructures 44
6 Unstable Crack Motion is Predictable 45
7 First Principles Theory of Nano- Materials, Spintronic Materials, and Nano- Spintronic Materials 52
8 Advances in Monte Carlo Simulations of Nanostructured Materials 64
9 Molecular Dynamics Study of Atomic Displacements and X- Ray Diffuse Scattering 77
Phase Transition and Other Topics in Statistical Mechanics 82
10 A Note on Stable States of Dipolar Systems at Low Temperatures 83
11 Low-Temperature Phase Boundary of Dilute Lattice Spin Glasses 88
12 Simulation Study of Gas-Liquid Interface 94
13 Dynamic Scaling of a Cluster Growth Process far from Equilibrium 100
14 Analysis of the Blume–Capel Model with the Wang– Landau Algorithm 105
15 Aging at Criticality in Models with Absorbing States 111
16 Size Dispersity Effects on the Two- Dimensional Melting 116
Methods 123
17 Asynchronously Parallelised Percolation on Distributed Machines 124
18 Applications of AViz in Undergraduate Education 129
19 Synchronous Sublattice Algorithm for Parallel Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations 134
20 Performance and Improvements of Flat- histogram Monte Carlo Simulations 140
Biological and Soft Condensed Matter 145
21 Monte Carlo Study of the Isotropic– Nematic Interface in Suspensions of Spherocylinders 146
22 Langevin Dynamics Study of Polymer Translocation through a Nanopore 160
23 Invasive Allele Spread under Preemptive Competition 166
List of Contributors 172