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.
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 CarParrinello 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.
