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This extensive and comprehensive collection of lectures by world-leading experts in the field introduces and reviews all relevant computer simulation methods and their applications in condensed matter systems. Volume 2 offers surveys on numerical experiments carried out for a great number of systems, ranging from materials sciences to chemical biology, including supercooled liquids, spin glasses, colloids, polymers, liquid crystals, biological membranes and folding proteins.

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Author:   Mauro Ferrario ,  Giovanni Ciccotti ,  Kurt Binder
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006
Volume:   704
Weight:   0.932kg
ISBN:  

9783642071232

ISBN 10:   3642071236
Pages:   592
Publication Date:   25 November 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Computer Simulations of Supercooled Liquids.- Numerical Simulations of Spin Glasses: Methods and Some Recent Results.- Dipolar Fluctuations in the Bulk and at Interfaces.- Theory and Simulation of Friction and Lubrication.- Simulation of Nanodroplets on Solid Surfaces: Wetting, Spreading and Bridging.- Monte Carlo Simulations of Compressible Ising Models: Do We Understand Them?.- Computer Simulation of Colloidal Suspensions.- Phase Transitions of Model Colloids in External Fields.- Computer Simulation of Liquid Crystals.- Coarse-Grained Models of Complex Fluids at Equilibrium and Under Shear.- Mesoscopic Simulations of Biological Membranes.- Microscopic Elasticity of Complex Systems.- Mesoscopic Simulations for Problems with Hydrodynamics, with Emphasis on Polymer Dynamics.- Polymer Dynamics: Long Time Simulations and Topological Constraints.- Reaction Kinetics of Coarse-Grained Equilibrium Polymers: A Brownian Dynamics Study.- Equilibration and Coarse-Graining Methods for Polymers.- Drug-Target Binding Investigated by Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Mechanical (QM/MM) Methods.- Redox Free Energies from Vertical Energy Gaps: Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Implementation.- Advanced Car–Parrinello Techniques: Path Integrals and Nonadiabaticity in Condensed Matter Simulations.- Evolutionary Design in Biological Physics and Materials Science.- Monte-Carlo Methods in Studies of Protein Folding and Evolution.

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