Condensed Matter Theories, 1987 Volume 2

The second volume of Condensed Matter Theories contains the proceedings of the 10th International Workshop held at Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, U.S.A. during the week of July 21, 1986. The workshop was attended by high-energy, nuclear and condensed-matter physicists as well as materials scientists. This diverse blend of participants was in keeping with the flavor of the previous workshops. This annual series of international workshops was"started in 1977 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Subsequent'workshops were held in Trieste (Italy), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Caracas (Venezuela), Altenberg (West Germany), Granada (Spain), and San Francisco (U.S.A.). What began as a meeting of the physicists from the Western Hemisphere has expanded in the last three years into an international conference of scientists with diverse interests and backgrounds. This diversity has promoted a healthy exchange of ideas from different branches of physics and also fruitful interactions among the participants. The present volume is a continuation of the effort started last year when the invited papers from the 9th International Workshop were published by Plenum Press. Our only trepidation in organizing a book of this kind stemmed from the diversity of the material, which did not lend itself easily to well-defined topics. Still, the articles are loosely divided into eight categories, where the papers in each category have either a common theme or the same underlying technique.

I. Computer Simulations.- Molecular Dynamics Studies of Glass Transitions: Vitrification and Amorphization.- Phase Transition in Metallic Spin Glasses.- Study of Dynamical Properties of Dense Soft Sphere Fluids and Glasses by Molecular Dynamics.- Dynamic Theory of the Glass Transition in Dense Classical Plasmas.- Structure of a One-Component Plasma in an External Field: A Molecular Dynamics Study of Particle Arrangement in a Heavy-Ion Storage Ring.- Calculation of Elastic Constants Using Molecular Dynamics.- Fragmentation and Structure of Silicon Microclusters.- Physics of Strongly Coupled Rotation-Translation Systems.- Computer Simulation of “Special” Grain Boundaries in Metals and Ionic Materials.- Order and Chaos in Neural Systems.- II. Density Functional Method.- What’s Right and What’s Wrong with the Density-Gradient Expansions for the Exchange and Correlation Energies?.- Exchange-Only Energy Functionals from Atomic Exchange Energy Densities.- Density Functional Theory and f Electron Systems.- Non-Local Correlation and Point Transformations in Density Functional Theory.- Symmetry Constraints in the Ionization Potentials and on the Formulation of the Hohenberg-Kohn-Sham Theory.- Hypernetted Chain Analyses of Dense Plasmalike Materials.- Self Consistent Model for Tunneling Across a One Dimensional Barrier in a Many Electron System.- Elasticity of Crystals and Quasicrystals.- III. Charged and Neutral Quantum Fluids.- Superfluidity in 3He Films.- Quantum Monte Carlo and the Equation of State of Liquid 3He.- Topics in Multi-Component Fermi Systems.- Rapidly-Convergent Truncation Scheme for the Ground State Energy of Quantum Fluids.- Boson-Mixtures at Non-Zero Temperatures.- Elementary Excitations in Two Dimensional Electron Gas Arrays.- Quark Cluster Model for High Energy Reactions with Nuclei.- Multipair Excitations and Dynamic Response of the Metallic Electron Gas in Two and Three Dimensions.- The Response Function of the Hard-Sphere Fermi Gas.- IV. Localization.- Degenerately-Doped Semiconductors in Strong Magnetic Fields.- Universal Conductance Fluctuations in Disordered Metals.- A Scaling Theory of Localization and Superconductivity.- Electron Localization in One-Dimensional Incommensurate Potentials.- Transport in Metal Alloys and Resistivity Saturation.- V. Growth Kinetics.- Ballistic Deposition on Surfaces.- Monte Carlo Simulation of Large Eden Clusters on a Cray-2.- Renormalization Group Methods for Phase Separation Problems.- Measuring Fractals: Comparison of Theory and Experiment on the Global Properties of a Strange Attractor.- VI. Quantum Hall Effect.- Fluctuation and Exchange in the Fractional Quantized Hall Effect.- Linear Response and the Quantization of the Hall Conductivity.- VII. Heavy-Feemion Systems.- What Underlies the Anderson Hamiltonian?.- The Anderson Lattice and Universal Properties of Heavy Fermion Systems.- VIII. Coupled Cluster Method.- Extended Coupled Cluster Method: Quantum Many-Body Theory Made Classical.- On an Effective Gauge Field Description of a Positron Impurity in Polarizable Media.- A Temperature Dependent Coupled Cluster Method.- CBF Description of Light Nuclei.