Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics IX, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997 Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop Athens, GA, USA, March 4-9, 1996 Coll. Springer Proceedings in Physics, Vol. 82

Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics IX covers recent developments in this field. This workshop was the ninth in this series and was held at the University of Georgia, March 4-9, 1996, and these proceedings form a record which is published with the goal of timely dissemination of the material to a wider audience. This volume is composed of three parts. The first section contains invited papers that deal with simulational studies of classical systems. The second section of the proceedings is devoted to invited papers on quantum systems, including new results for strongly correlated electron and quantum spin models. The final section comprises contributed presentations.

Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics: An Introduction.- I Classical Systems.- Phase Diagrams of Alloys and Adsorbed Monolayers: Some Recent Results.- Plasticity and Chaos in Models of Randomly-Pinned, Driven Lattices.- Large-Scale Simulations of Melting in Two-Dimensional Lennard-Jones Systems: Evidence for a Metastable Hexatic Phase.- II Quantum Systems.- Cluster Monte Carlo Method for Quantum Systems.- Coupled Quantum Chains: A Bumpy Path from 1 to 2 Dimensions.- Divide-and-Conquer Treatments of Electron Correlations.- Optimized Trial Functions Applied to Static and Dynamic Equilibrium Critical Phenomena, and Quantum Mechanical van der Waals Clusters.- III Contributed Papers.- Path-Integral Monte Carlo Simulation for H2 and D2 Adsorbed on Graphite.- The Path-Integral Monte Carlo Method for Rotational Degrees of Freedom.- Three-State Potts Model on the Quasiperiodic Octagonal Tiling.- Application of the Exchange Monte Carlo Method to the 3D ±J Ising Spin Glass.- Large Finite-Size Effects of Discrete Systems in Microcanonical Ensemble Monte Carlo Simulations.- Surface Critical Exponents of Linear Polymers on a Square Lattice: The Universality Classes of the ? and ?? Points.- Oscillating Chemical Reactions Simulated by Molecular Dynamics.- Spinodal Decomposition in Three-Dimensional Binary Fluids: A Large-Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulation.- Simulation of a Reacting Plasma: Preliminary Results.- Behaviour of the Finite-Sized, Three-Dimensional, Ising Model Near the Critical Point.- Phase Transition in the Two-Dimesional Classical XY Model.- Cluster Structures in the Configuration Space and Relaxation in the 3d ± J Ising Spin Glass.- Application of Combinatorial Optimization to the Problem of Configuration Space of Ising Spin Glasses.- Low-Temperature Metastable Lifetimes of the Square-Lattice Ising Ferromagnet.- Index of Contributors.