Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics XIV

1 Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics: An Introduction.- I Nonequilibrium and Dynamical Behavior.- 2 Nonequilibrium Energy Transport in Multiphase System.- 3 Dynamics of Dislocations in a Two-dimensional System.- 4 Recent Development in Nonequilibrium Relaxation Method.- 5 Dynamic Phase Diagram for a Periodically Driven Kinetic Ising Ferromagnet: Finite-size Scaling Evidence for the Absence of a Tri-critical Point.- 6 First-Principles Parameter Estimation for Dynamic Monte Carlo of a Lattice-Gas Model.- II Clusters, Films, and Interfaces.- 7 Gold Microclusters (Aun; n = 3-13): A Molecular Dynamics Computer Simulation.- 8 On the Ground State Structure of Adsorbed Monolayers: Can One Find them by Monte Carlo Simulation?.- 9 Simulation of the Early Stages of Growth on a Patterned Substrate.- 10 Ions and Other Solutes at the Ice/Water Interface.- 11 Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Droplet Spreading Process for Metallic Phases: The Low Energy Cluster-Substrate Impacts.- 12 Universal Expression for Blocking Cone Size in Low Energy Ion Scattering Based on MD Simulations.- III Phase Transitions.- 13 Critical Phenomena at the Surface of Systems Undergoing a Bulk First Order Transition: Are They Understood?.- 14 Analysis of the Density of Partition Function Zeroes: A Measure for Phase Transition Strength.- 15 The Spectrum of Eigenvalues in the Renormalization Group Theory of Phase Transitions.- IV New Methods and Approaches.- 16 Methods for Computing Density of States for Statistical Mechanical Models.- 17 New Cluster Method for the Ising Model.- 18 Low Temperature Dynamic Monte Carlo Simulations with a Phonon Heat Bath for Square-Lattice Ising Ferromagnets.- 19 Applications of the Probability-Changing Cluster Algorithm and Related Problems.- 20 Exponential Product Computing-Scheme for Time-Dependent Interactions Including the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian.- 21 Visualization and Real-Time Collaboration over Internet-2.- V Quantum Systems / Electronic Structure.- 22 Chiral Symmetry Versus the Lattice.- 23 The Stochastic Series Expansion Method for Quantum Lattice Models.- 24 Superconductivity with a Meron-Cluster Algorithm.- 25 Advances in the Investigation of the Minus Sign Problem for the Fermionic Case.- 26 New Variational States for t - J Ladders.- 27 Ab-initio Study of the Ground-State Phase Diagram of the Icosahedral Ti-Zr-Ni Quasicrystal.- 28 Geometric Theory of Stress Fields for Quantum Systems at Finite Temperature.- VI Polymers and Complex Systems.- 29 Phase Behavior of Binary Polymer Blends in Thin Films.- 30 Statistics of an Age Structured Population with Two Competing Species: Analytic and Monte Carlo Studies.- 31 Including Hydrodynamic Interactions in Acicular Models of Magnetic Colloids.- 32 Simulation of the Dynamics of Polymers in Solution via a Hybrid Molecular Dynamics-Lattice Boltzmann Scheme.- 33 Frustrated Spring-Network Model for Crosslinked Polymer Surfaces.- 34 The Wonderful World of Granular Ratchets.- List of Contributors.