Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics XVIII: Proceedings of the Eighteenth Workshop Athens, GA, USA, March 7–11, 2005

Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics: An Introduction....Pages 1-3
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of the Impurity-Induced Phase Transitions in Low-Dimensional Magnets....Pages 7-12
Quantum World-line Monte Carlo Method with Non-binary Loops and Its Application....Pages 13-26
Event-by-Event Simulation of Quantum Phenomena....Pages 27-31
Deterministic Event-based Simulation of Universal Quantum Computation....Pages 32-36
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
Unstable Crack Motion is Predictable....Pages 39-45
First Principles Theory of Nano-Materials, Spintronic Materials, and Nano-Spintronic Materials....Pages 46-57
Advances in Monte Carlo Simulations of Nanostructured Materials....Pages 58-70
Molecular Dynamics Study of Atomic Displacements and X-Ray Diffuse Scattering....Pages 71-75
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
A Note on Stable States of Dipolar Systems at Low Temperatures....Pages 79-83
Low-Temperature Phase Boundary of Dilute Lattice Spin Glasses....Pages 84-89
Simulation Study of Gas-Liquid Interface....Pages 90-95
Dynamic Scaling of a Cluster Growth Process far from Equilibrium....Pages 96-100
Analysis of the Blume-Capel Model with the Wang-Landau Algorithm....Pages 101-106
Aging at Criticality in Models with Absorbing States....Pages 107-111
Size Dispersity Effects on the Two-Dimensional Melting....Pages 112-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Asynchronously Parallelised Percolation on Distributed Machines....Pages 121-125
Applications of AViz in Undergraduate Education....Pages 126-130
Synchronous Sublattice Algorithm for Parallel Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations....Pages 131-136
Performance and Improvements of Flat-histogram Monte Carlo Simulations....Pages 137-141
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Monte Carlo Study of the Isotropic-Nematic Interface in Suspensions of Spherocylinders....Pages 145-158
Langevin Dynamics Study of Polymer Translocation through a Nanopore....Pages 159-164
Invasive Allele Spread under Preemptive Competition....Pages 165-170
Back Matter....Pages 171-173