Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics IX: Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop Athens, GA, USA, March 4–9, 1996

Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics: An Introduction....Pages 1-2
Front Matter....Pages 3-3
Phase Diagrams of Alloys and Adsorbed Monolayers: Some Recent Results....Pages 5-18
Plasticity and Chaos in Models of Randomly-Pinned, Driven Lattices....Pages 19-30
Large-Scale Simulations of Melting in Two-Dimensional Lennard-Jones Systems: Evidence for a Metastable Hexatic Phase....Pages 31-42
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
Cluster Monte Carlo Method for Quantum Systems....Pages 45-58
Coupled Quantum Chains: A Bumpy Path from 1 to 2 Dimensions....Pages 59-73
Divide-and-Conquer Treatments of Electron Correlations....Pages 74-89
Optimized Trial Functions Applied to Static and Dynamic Equilibrium Critical Phenomena, and Quantum Mechanical van der Waals Clusters....Pages 90-107
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Path-Integral Monte Carlo Simulation for H 2 and D 2 Adsorbed on Graphite....Pages 111-115
The Path-Integral Monte Carlo Method for Rotational Degrees of Freedom....Pages 116-121
Three-State Potts Model on the Quasiperiodic Octagonal Tiling....Pages 122-127
Application of the Exchange Monte Carlo Method to the 3D ± J Ising Spin Glass....Pages 128-132
Large Finite-Size Effects of Discrete Systems in Microcanonical Ensemble Monte Carlo Simulations....Pages 133-138
Surface Critical Exponents of Linear Polymers on a Square Lattice: The Universality Classes of the θ and θ′ Points....Pages 139-143
Oscillating Chemical Reactions Simulated by Molecular Dynamics....Pages 144-149
Spinodal Decomposition in Three-Dimensional Binary Fluids: A Large-Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulation....Pages 150-155
Simulation of a Reacting Plasma: Preliminary Results....Pages 156-161
Behaviour of the Finite-Sized, Three-Dimensional, Ising Model Near the Critical Point....Pages 162-166
Phase Transition in the Two-Dimesional Classical XY Model....Pages 167-172
Cluster Structures in the Configuration Space and Relaxation in the 3 d ± J Ising Spin Glass....Pages 173-177
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Application of Combinatorial Optimization to the Problem of Configuration Space of Ising Spin Glasses....Pages 178-181
Low-Temperature Metastable Lifetimes of the Square-Lattice Ising Ferromagnet....Pages 182-187
Back Matter....Pages 189-191