Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics XVI

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

1 Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics: An Introduction.- I Nonequilibrium Phenomena.- 2. Fast Coarsening and Steady States in a Low-Dimensional Driven System.- 3. A Nonequilibrium Lattice Gas of Two-species: Monte Carlo Investigations.- 4. Stochastic Growth in a Small World.- 5. Flicker Noise in a Model of Coevolving Biological Populations.- II Quantum Phenomena.- 6. Physical and Computational Aspects of Density Functional Spin Dynamics.- 7. Finite Temperature Simulation Based on Lanczos Algorithm for Low-Dimensional Quantum Systems.- 8. Quantum Phase Transitions of Quasi-One-Dimensional Heisenberg Antiferromagnets.- 9. Multi-hole Tunneling between Charge Domains in Doped Antiferromagnets.- 10. Decoherence in Quantum Spin Systems.- 11. Quantum Computing Simulation using the Auxiliary Field Decomposition.- III Phase Transitions.- 12. Quenched Disorder Distributions in Three-Dimensional Diluted Ferromagnets.- 13. Weak Universality of Spin Glasses in Three Dimensions.- 14. Critical Exponents of the Two Dimensional Melting.- 15. Numerical Study of Critical Exponents for Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition Systems.- 16. Critical Wetting and Interface Localization-Derealization Transition in a Double Wedge.- IV Soft Condensed Matter.- 17. Effect of Packing Parameter on Amphiphilic Self-Assembly: A Brownian Dynamics Study.- 18. The Droplet Evaporation/Condensation Transition in a Finite Volume.- 19. Configurational Bias Monte Carlo Applied to Lipid Membranes in the Semi-grand Ensemble to Speed Up Mixing.- 20. Folding Polymer Chains.- 21. Polymer Collapse in High Dimensions: Monte Carlo Simulation of Lattice Models.- 22. Computer Simulation of Polymers: Physics and Methods from Specific to Universal.- V Methods and Pedagogy.- 23. Using Simulations to TeachStatistical Physics.- 24. Visualization of Melting Simulations.- 25. Network Algorithms and Critical Manifolds in Disordered Systems.- 26. Random Graphs as Building Blocks for a Network Model.- 27. Generalized Probability-Changing Algorithm.- 28. Adaptive Integration Method.- VI Simulations of Materials.- 29. Lattice Instabilities of Perovskite Oxides from First Principles.- 30. Monte Carlo Simulations of Metal Monoatomic Layers.- 31. Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Nanoindentation.- List of Contributors.