Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics XVII

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

Systems out of Equilibrium.- Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics: An Introduction.- Shake, Rattle or Roll: Things to do with a Granular Mixture on a Computer.- A New Method of Investigating Equilibrium Properties from Nonequilibrium Work.- Numerical Simulations of Critical Dynamics far from Equilibrium.- Soft and Disordered Materials.- Entropy Driven Phase Separation.- Supercooled Liquids under Shear: Computational Approach.- Optimizing Glasses with Extremal Dynamics.- Stochastic Collision Molecular Dynamics Simulations for Ion Transfer Across Liquid-Liquid Interfaces.- Biological Systems.- Generalized-Ensemble Simulations of Small Proteins.- A Biological Coevolution Model with Correlated Individual-Based Dynamics.- An Image Recognition Algorithm for Automatic Counting of Brain Cells of Fruit Fly.- Preferred Binding Sites of Gene-Regulatory Proteins Based on the Deterministic Dead-End Elimination Algorithm.- Algorithms and Methods.- Geometric Cluster Algorithm for Interacting Fluids.- Polymer Simulations with a Flat Histogram Stochastic Growth Algorithm.- Convergence of the Wang-Landau Algorithm and Statistical Error.- Wang-Landau Sampling with Cluster Updates.- Multibaric-Multithermal Simulations for Lennard-Jones Fluids.- A Successive Umbrella Sampling Algorithm to Sample and Overcome Free Energy Barriers.- Computer Tools.- C++ and Generic Programming for Rapid Development of Monte Carlo Simulations.- Visualization of Vector Spin Configurations.- The BlueGene/L Project.- Molecules, Clusters and Nanoparticles.- All-Electron Path Integral Monte Carlo Simulations of Small Atoms and Molecules.- Projective Dynamics in Realistic Models of Nanomagnets.- Cumulants for an Ising Model for Folded 1-d Small-World Materials.- Embryonic Forms of Nickel and Palladium: A Molecular Dynamics Computer Simulation.- Surfaces and Alloys.- Usage of Pattern Recognition Scheme in Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations: Application to Cluster Diffusion on Cu(111).- Including Long-Range Interactions in Atomistic Modelling of Diffusional Phase Changes.- Br Electrodeposition on Au(100): From DFT to Experiment.- Simulation of ZnSe, ZnS Coating on CdSe Substrate: The Electronic Structure and Absorption Spectra.- Simulation of Islands and Vacancy Structures for Si/Ge-covered Si(001) Using a Hybrid MC-MD Algorithm.- Spin-Polarons in the FM Kondo Model.