Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics IX

Invited papers from the 9th annual workshop on Recent Developments in Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics held at the University of Georgia. These proceedings form a record which is published with the goal of timely dissemination of the material to a wider audience.

Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics: An Introduction.- I Classical Systems.- Phase Diagrams of Alloys and Adsorbed Monolayers: Some Recent Results.- Plasticity and Chaos in Models of Randomly-Pinned, Driven Lattices.- Large-Scale Simulations of Melting in Two-Dimensional Lennard-Jones Systems: Evidence for a Metastable Hexatic Phase.- II Quantum Systems.- Cluster Monte Carlo Method for Quantum Systems.- Coupled Quantum Chains: A Bumpy Path from 1 to 2 Dimensions.- Divide-and-Conquer Treatments of Electron Correlations.- Optimized Trial Functions Applied to Static and Dynamic Equilibrium Critical Phenomena, and Quantum Mechanical van der Waals Clusters.- III Contributed Papers.- Path-Integral Monte Carlo Simulation for H2 and D2 Adsorbed on Graphite.- The Path-Integral Monte Carlo Method for Rotational Degrees of Freedom.- Three-State Potts Model on the Quasiperiodic Octagonal Tiling.- Application of the Exchange Monte Carlo Method to the 3D ±J Ising Spin Glass.- Large Finite-Size Effects of Discrete Systems in Microcanonical Ensemble Monte Carlo Simulations.- Surface Critical Exponents of Linear Polymers on a Square Lattice: The Universality Classes of the ? and ?? Points.- Oscillating Chemical Reactions Simulated by Molecular Dynamics.- Spinodal Decomposition in Three-Dimensional Binary Fluids: A Large-Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulation.- Simulation of a Reacting Plasma: Preliminary Results.- Behaviour of the Finite-Sized, Three-Dimensional, Ising Model Near the Critical Point.- Phase Transition in the Two-Dimesional Classical XY Model.- Cluster Structures in the Configuration Space and Relaxation in the 3d ± J Ising Spin Glass.- Application of Combinatorial Optimization to the Problem of Configuration Space of Ising Spin Glasses.-Low-Temperature Metastable Lifetimes of the Square-Lattice Ising Ferromagnet.- Index of Contributors.