Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed-Matter Physics XVIII: Proceedings of the Eighteenth Workshop, Athens, GA, USA, March 7-11, 2005 (Springer Proceedings in Physics, 105)

Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics: An Introduction.- Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics: An Introduction.- Quantum Simulations and Quantum Computing Nanostructures.- Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of the Impurity-Induced Phase Transitions in Low-Dimensional Magnets.- Quantum World-line Monte Carlo Method with Non-binary Loops and Its Application.- Event-by-Event Simulation of Quantum Phenomena.- Deterministic Event-based Simulation of Universal Quantum Computation.- Materials and Nanostructures.- Unstable Crack Motion is Predictable.- First Principles Theory of Nano-Materials, Spintronic Materials, and Nano-Spintronic Materials.- Advances in Monte Carlo Simulations of Nanostructured Materials.- Molecular Dynamics Study of Atomic Displacements and X-Ray Diffuse Scattering.- Phase Transition and Other Topics in Statistical Mechanics.- A Note on Stable States of Dipolar Systems at Low Temperatures.- Low-Temperature Phase Boundary of Dilute Lattice Spin Glasses.- Simulation Study of Gas-Liquid Interface.- Dynamic Scaling of a Cluster Growth Process far from Equilibrium.- Analysis of the Blume-Capel Model with the Wang-Landau Algorithm.- Aging at Criticality in Models with Absorbing States.- Size Dispersity Effects on the Two-Dimensional Melting.- Methods.- Asynchronously Parallelised Percolation on Distributed Machines.- Applications of AViz in Undergraduate Education.- Synchronous Sublattice Algorithm for Parallel Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations.- Performance and Improvements of Flat-histogram Monte Carlo Simulations.- Biological and Soft Condensed Matter.- Monte Carlo Study of the Isotropic-Nematic Interface in Suspensions of Spherocylinders.- Langevin Dynamics Study of Polymer Translocation through a Nanopore.- Invasive Allele Spread under Preemptive Competition.