Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics XIV: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop, Athens, GA, USA, February 19–24, 2001

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics: An Introduction....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Nonequilibrium Energy Transport in Multiphase System....Pages 7-11
Dynamics of Dislocations in a Two-dimensional System....Pages 12-26
Recent Development in Nonequilibrium Relaxation Method....Pages 27-33
Dynamic Phase Diagram for a Periodically Driven Kinetic Square-lattice Ising Ferromagnet: Finite-size Scaling Evidence for the Absence of a Tri-critical Point....Pages 34-39
First-Principles Parameter Estimation for Dynamic Monte Carlo of a Lattice-Gas Model....Pages 40-44
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
Gold Microclusters (Au n ; n = 3–13): A Molecular Dynamics Computer Simulation....Pages 47-56
On the Ground State Structure of Adsorbed Monolayers: Can One Find them by Monte Carlo Simulation?....Pages 57-60
Simulation of the Early Stages of Growth on a Patterned Substrate....Pages 61-65
Ions and Other Solutes at the Ice/Water Interface....Pages 66-69
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Droplet Spreading Process for Metallic Phases: The Low Energy Cluster-Substrate Impacts....Pages 70-76
Universal Expression for Blocking Cone Size in Low Energy Ion Scattering Based on MD Simulations....Pages 77-81
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Critical Phenomena at the Surface of Systems Undergoing a Bulk First Order Transition: Are They Understood?....Pages 85-96
Analysis of the Density of Partition Function Zeroes: A Measure for Phase Transition Strength....Pages 97-101
The Spectrum of Eigenvalues in the Renormalization Group Theory of Phase Transitions....Pages 102-110
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Methods for Computing Density of States for Statistical Mechanical Models....Pages 113-122
New Cluster Method for the Ising Model....Pages 123-133
Low Temperature Dynamic Monte Carlo Simulations with a Phonon Heat Bath for Square-Lattice Ising Ferromagnets....Pages 134-139
Applications of the Probability-Changing Cluster Algorithm and Related Problems....Pages 140-153
Exponential Product Computing-Scheme for Time-Dependent Interactions Including the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian....Pages 154-159
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Visualization and Real-Time Collaboration over Internet-2....Pages 160-165
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Chiral Symmetry Versus the Lattice....Pages 169-181
The Stochastic Series Expansion Method for Quantum Lattice Models....Pages 182-187
Superconductivity with a Meron-Cluster Algorithm....Pages 188-193
Advances in the Investigation of the Minus Sign Problem for the Fermionic Case....Pages 194-199
New Variational States for t - J Ladders....Pages 200-203
Ab-initio Study of the Ground-State Phase Diagram of the Icosahedral Ti-Zr-Ni Quasicrystal....Pages 204-208
Geometric Theory of Stress Fields for Quantum Systems at Finite Temperature....Pages 209-213
Front Matter....Pages 215-215
Phase Behavior of Binary Polymer Blends in Thin Films....Pages 217-234
Statistics of an Age Structured Population with Two Competing Species: Analytic and Monte Carlo Studies....Pages 235-254
Including Hydrodynamic Interactions in Acicular Models of Magnetic Colloids....Pages 255-259
Simulation of the Dynamics of Polymers in Solution via a Hybrid Molecular Dynamics-Lattice Boltzmann Scheme....Pages 260-264
Frustrated Spring-Network Model for Crosslinked Polymer Surfaces....Pages 265-269
The Wonderful World of Granular Ratchets....Pages 270-274
Back Matter....Pages 275-277