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Almost fifteen years ago, because of the phenomenal growth in the
power of computer simulations, The University of Georgia formed the
first institu tional unit devoted to the use of simulations in
research and teaching: The Center for Simulational Physics. As the
international simulations community expanded further, we sensed a
need for a meeting place for both experi enced simulators and
neophytes to discuss new techniques and recent results in an
environment which promoted extended discussion. As a consequence,
the Center for Simulational Physics established an annual workshop
on Re cent Developments in Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed
Matter Physics. This year's workshop was the thirteenth in this
series, and the con tinued interest shown by the scientific
community demonstrates quite clearly the useful purpose that these
meetings have served. The latest workshop was held at The
University of Georgia, February 21-25, 2000, and these proceed ings
provide a "status report" on a number of important topics. This
volume is published with the goal of timely dissemination of the
material to a wider audience. We wish to offer a special thanks to
the IBM Corporation for its generous support of this year's
workshop. We also acknowledge the Donors of the Petroleum Research
Fund, administered by the American Chemical Society, and the
National Science Foundation for partial support. This volume
contains both invited papers and contributed presentations on
problems in both classical and quantum condensed matter physics."
Monte Carlo computer simulations are now a standard tool in
scientific fields such as condensed-matter physics, including
surface-physics and applied-physics problems (metallurgy,
diffusion, and segregation, etc. ), chemical physics, including
studies of solutions, chemical reactions, polymer statistics, etc.,
and field theory. With the increasing ability of this method to
deal with quantum-mechanical problems such as quantum spin systems
or many-fermion problems, it will become useful for other questions
in the fields of elementary-particle and nuclear physics as well.
The large number of recent publications dealing either with
applications or further development of some aspects of this method
is a clear indication that the scientific community has realized
the power and versatility of Monte Carlo simula tions, as well as
of related simulation techniques such as "molecular dynamics" and
"Langevin dynamics," which are only briefly mentioned in the
present book. With the increasing availability of recent
very-high-speed general-purpose computers, many problems become
tractable which have so far escaped satisfactory treatment due to
prac tical limitations (too small systems had to be chosen, or too
short averaging times had to be used). While this approach is
admittedly rather expensive, two cheaper alternatives have become
available, too: (i) array or vector processors specifical ly suited
for wide classes of simulation purposes; (ii) special purpose
processors, which are built for a more specific class of problems
or, in the extreme case, for the simulation of one single model
system."
More than a decade ago, because of the phenomenal growth in the
power of computer simulations, The University of Georgia formed the
first institutional unit devoted to the use of simulations in
research and teaching: The Center for Simulational Physics. As the
simulations community expanded further, we sensed a need for a
meeting place for both experienced simulators and neophytes to
discuss new techniques and recent results in an environment which
promoted extended discussion. As a consequence, the Center for Sim
ulational Physics established an annual workshop on Recent
Developments in Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter
Physics. This year's workshop was the twelfth in this series. It
was held at The University of Geor gia, March 8-12, 1999 as an
unofficial satellite conference to the Centennial Meeting of the
American Physical Society in Atlanta, GA. The continued interest
shown by the scientific community demonstrates quite clearly the
useful purpose which the series has served. These proceedings
provide a "sta tus report" on a number of important topics. This
volume is published with the goal of timely dissemination of the
material to a wider audience. We wish to offer special thanks to
IBM Corporation for their generous support of this year's workshop.
This volume contains both invited papers and contributed
presentations on problems in both classical and quantum condensed
matter physics. We hope that each reader will benefit from
specialized results as well as profit from exposure to new
algorithms, methods of analysis, and conceptual devel opments."
Over the last 30 years, Professor David P. Landau's trailblazing
research achievements and influential leadership have helped
establish computer sim ulation as a powerful and incisive mode of
scientific investigation, now on a par in the physical sciences
with experimental and theoretical research. This year, we were very
pleased to organize a special one-day symposium honor ing the 60th
birthday of our distinguished colleague and friend. This event was
held in conjunction with and immediately following the annual
computer simulations workshop that Professor Landau founded 14
years ago. Many of the papers presented at this honorary symposium
are integrated into this pro ceedings volume, and the accompanying
photograph of participants serves to commemorate this very special
event. This volume contains both invited papers and contributed
presentations on problems in both classical and quantum condensed
matter physics. We hope that each reader will benefit from
specialized results as well as profit from exposure to new
algorithms, methods of analysis, and conceptual devel opments."
Deals with the computer simulation of complex physical sys- tems
encounteredin condensed-matter physics and statistical mechanics as
well as in related fields such as metallurgy, polymer
research,lattice gauge theory and quantummechanics.
In the seven years since this volume first appeared. there has been
an enormous expansion of the range of problems to which Monte Carlo
computer simulation methods have been applied. This fact has
already led to the addition of a companion volume ("Applications of
the Monte Carlo Method in Statistical Physics", Topics in Current
Physics. Vol . 36), edited in 1984, to this book. But the field
continues to develop further; rapid progress is being made with
respect to the implementation of Monte Carlo algorithms, the
construction of special-purpose computers dedicated to exe cute
Monte Carlo programs, and new methods to analyze the "data"
generated by these programs. Brief descriptions of these and other
developments, together with numerous addi tional references, are
included in a new chapter , "Recent Trends in Monte Carlo
Simulations" , which has been written for this second edition.
Typographical correc tions have been made and fuller references
given where appropriate, but otherwise the layout and contents of
the other chapters are left unchanged. Thus this book, together
with its companion volume mentioned above, gives a fairly complete
and up to-date review of the field. It is hoped that the reduced
price of this paperback edition will make it accessible to a wide
range of scientists and students in the fields to which it is
relevant: theoretical phYSics and physical chemistry , con
densed-matter physics and materials science, computational physics
and applied mathematics, etc.
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