Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics X

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

Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics An Introduction.- I Classical Systems.- Monte Carlo Approaches to Universal Finite-Size Scaling Functions.- Polymer Surfaces and Interfaces: A Continuum Simulation Approach.- Monte Carlo Simulation of Langmuir Monolayer Models.- Cluster Simulation of Lattice Gases.- Computer Simulations of Fracture in Disordered Visco-Elastic Systems.- II Quantum Systems.- Quantum Phase Transitions in Random Magnets.- Metal-Insulator Transitions in Strongly Correlated Systems.- Quantum Zero-Point Critical Fluctuations in Arrays of Ultrasmall Josephson Junctions.- The Effect of Randomness on Long-Range Order in the Two-dimensional Half-filled Hubbard Model.- Quantum Critical Exponents of a Planar Antiferromagnet.- III Contributed Papers.- Fragmentation Scaling of the Percolation Cluster.- Magnons in Heisenberg Chains with Random ±J Nearest-Neighbor Interactions.- Eight-State Potts Model on the Quasiperiodic Octagonal Tiling: Free Boundary Effects.- Generalized Ensemble Simulation of Peptides and Proteins.- Monte Carlo Studies of Surface-Induced Ordering in Cu3Au-Type Alloy Models.- An Inherent-Structures Study of Two-Dimensional Melting.- Monte Carlo Simulation on Aging Phenomena in the SK Spin-Glass Model: Temperature Dependence of the Time Evolution of Energy.- Spontaneous Chiral Symmetry Breaking in 2D Aggregation.- Interactive Modeling of Granular Flow.- Numerical Study of a Random Gauge XY Model.- Perpendicular Order in Frustrated Magnetic Layers.- Simulation of Polymers Using the Ellipsoidal Model.- Microcanonical Transfer Matrix and Yang-Lee Zeros of the Q-State Potts Model.- Roughening Transitions in HCP Lattices.- Spin Patterns in the Three-Dimensional Chiral Clock Model.- The Critical Region in Finite-Sized Systems.-Projected Dynamics for Metastable Decay in Ising Models.- Short-Time-Scaling Behavior of Growing Interfaces.- Scaling Behavior of the 2D XY Model Revisited.- A Chemical Picture of the Dissociation and Thermodynamics of Dense Fluid Hydrogen.- Index of Contributors.