Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics

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

I Classical Systems.- New Numerical Algorithms for Critical Phenomena (Multi-Grid Methods and All That).- Multigrid Monte Carlo Methods.- Monte Carlo Simulations Using the Gaussian Ensemble.- Classical Spin Dynamics in the Two-Dimensional Anisotropic Heisenberg Model.- Simulation Study of Light Scattering from Soot Agglomerates.- Simulation of Non-equilibrium Growth and Aggregation Processes.- Growth by Gradients: Fractal Growth and Pattern Formation in a Laplacian Field.- Dynamics of Dense Polymers: A Molecular Dynamics Approach.- Monte Carlo Simulations of Polymer Systems.- Molecular Dynamics: A New Approach to Hydrodynamics?.- Molecular Dynamics Simulations in Material Science and Condensed Matter Physics.- Simulations of Oxygen Monolayer and Bilayer Systems.- II Quantum Systems.- Classical and Quantum Simulations of Quasi Two-Dimensional Condensed Phases: Krypton and Helium on Graphite.- Path-Integral and Real-Time Dynamics Simulations of Quantum Systems.- Superfluidity of a Two-Dimensional Bose-Coulomb Gas.- Quantum Monte Carlo Studies of the Holstein Model.- Structure of the Wave Function of Crystalline 4He.- Electronic Structure Calculation by Nonlinear Optimization: Application to Metals.- A Method for Determining Many Body Wavefunctions.- III Computer Graphics.- Computer Graphics for Scientists and Engineers.- IV Contributed Papers.- Monte Carlo Calculation of Transfer Matrix Eigenvalues.- Finite Size Effects at First-Order Phase Transitions Revisited.- Correlation Time Measurements for the d=2 Ising Model.- Monte Carlo Study of the Critical Dynamics at the Surface of an Ising Model.- A New Model of Interactive Percolation.- MD Simulation of 2D Rb Liquid and Solid Phases in Graphite.- Index of Contributors.