Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics XV -

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Sommaire:
1 Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics: An Introduction.- I Magnetism.- 2 Low-Temperature Metastability: Prefactors, Divergences, and Discontinuities.- 3 Fine-Grid Simulations of Thermally Activated Switching in Nanoscale Magnets.- 4 Determining the Saddle Point in Micromagnetic Models of Magnetization Switching.- 5 Macroscopic Magnetization Jumps in Strongly Frustrated Quantum Spin Lattices.- 6 Nonequilibrium Relaxation Study on the Ferromagnetic Transition of Ising Spin Glass Model.- 7 Nonequilibrium Relaxation Analysis of Frustrated XY Models in Two Dimensions.- 8 First Principles Calculations of the Magnetic Structure in FeMn/Co Bilayers.- II Quantum Systems.- 9 Phase Transitions and Quantum Effects in Pore Condensates.- 10 Polynomial Expansion Method for the Monte Carlo Calculation of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems.- 11 Prom Frustrated Ising Models to Quantum Computing.- 12 Parallel Quantum Monte Carlo Simulation of S = 3 Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Chain.- 13 Melting of Stripes in a Two-Dimensional Hard-Core Boson Hubbard Model.- 14 A Microscopic Approach to the Mott-Hubbard Gap.- 15 Two Quantum Cluster Approximations.- III Materials Properties.- 16 Asymptotic Behavior of a Strain Percolation Model for a Deforming Metal.- 17 Calculation of Static and Thermal Displacements in Metallic Alloys.- 18 Monte Carlo Simulation of the Surface Structure of Ge on Si(001).- IV Liquids and Colloids.- 19 Simulating Semiconductor Liquids with Ab Initio Pseudopotentials and Quantum Forces.- 20 Mapping Molecular Simulations to Continuum Models for Binary Fluids.- 21 Electrokinetic Phenomena Revisited: A Lattice-Boltzmann Approach.- V Methods and Algorithms.- 22 Binary Tree Summation Monte Carlo Method for Potts Models.- 23 Probability-Changing ClusterAlgorithm for Two-Dimensional Systems with the Vector Order Parameter.- 24 Flat Histogram Method of Wang-Landau and N-Fold Way.- 25 Solving the Time-Dependent Maxwell Equations by Unconditionally Stable Algorithms.- 26 Chebyshev Method to Solve the Time-Dependent Maxwell Equations.- 27 Statistical Mechanics of Classical Distinguishable Particles.- List of Contributors.