Computer simulations in condensed matter systems:from materials to chemical biology

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Corporate Authors: Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture.; SpringerLink (Online service)
Group Author: Ferrario Mauro.; Ciccotti Giovanni.; Binder K.; (Kurt), 1944-
Published: Springer,
Publisher Address: Berlin
Publication Dates: c2006.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Lecture notes in physics ; v. 703-704
Subjects:
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-35273-2
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-35284-8
Carrier Form: 2 v.: ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9786610805174 (v.1) (electronic book)
6610805172 (v.1) (electronic book)
9783540352846 (v.2) (electronic book)
3540352848 (v.2) (electronic book)
Index Number: O48
CLC: O48-532
Contents: Proceedings of a school held at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Center for Scientific Culture, Erice, Sicily in July 2005.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
volume 1. Introduction: condensed matter theory by computer simulation / G. Ciccotti, K. Binder, and M. Ferrario -- Introduction to cluster Monte Carlo Algorithms / E. Luijten -- Generic sampling strategies for Monte Carlo simulation of phase behaviour / N. B. Wilding -- Simulation techniques for calculating free energies / M. Müller and J. J. de Pablo -- Waste-recycling Monte Carlo / D. Frenkel -- Equilibrium statistical mechanics, non-Hamiltonian molecular dynamics, and novel applications from resonance-free timesteps to adiabatic free energy dynamics / J. B. Abrams, M. E. Tuckerman, and G. J. Martyna -- Simulating charged systems with ESPResSo / A. Arnold, B. A. F. Mann, and Christian Holm -- Density functional theory based Ab Initio molecular dynamics using the car-parrinello approach / R. Vuilleumier -- Large scale condensed matter calculations using the Gaussian and augmented plane waves method / J. Vande Vondele, M. Iannuzzi, and J. Hutter -- Computing free energies and accelerating rare events with metadynamics / A. Laio and M. Parrinello -- Transition path sampling methods / C. Dellago, P. G. Bolhuis, and P. L. Geissler -- Sampling Kinetic protein folding pathways using all-atom models / P. G. Bolhuis -- Calculation of classical trajectories with boundary value formulation / R. Elber -- Transition path theory / E. Vanden-Eijnden -- Multiscale modelling in molecular dynamics: biomolecular conformations as metastable states / E. Meerbach ... [et al.] -- Transport coefficients of quantum-classical systems / R. Kapral and G. Ciccotti -- Linearized path integral methods for quantum time correlation functions / D. F. Coker and S. Bonella -- Ensemble optimization techniques for classical and quantum systems / S. Trebst and M. Troyer -- The coupled electron-ion Monte Carlo method / C. Pierleoni and D. M. Ceperley -- Path resummations and the fermion sign problem / A. Alavi and A. J. W. Thom -- LNP 704 computer simulations in condensed matter systems: from material to chemical biology. Volume 2. Computer simulations of supercooled liquids / W. Kob -- Numerical simulations of spin glasses: methods and some recent results / A. P. Young -- Dipolar fluctuations in the bulk and at interfaces / V. Ballenegger, R. Blaak, and J. -P. Hansen -- Theory and simulation of friction and lubrication / M. H. Müser -- Simulation of nanodroplets on solid surfaces: wetting, spreading and bridging / A. Milchev -- Monte Carlo simulations of compressible Ising models: do we understand them? / D. P. Landau ... [et al.] -- Computer simulation of colloidal suspensions / H. Löwen -- Phase transitions of model colloids in external fields / P. Nielaba, S. Sengupta, and W. Strepp -- Computer simulation of liquid crystals / M. P. Allen -- Coarse-grained models of complex fluids at equilibrium and under shear / F. Schmid -- Mesoscopic simulations of biological membranes / B. Smit ... [et al.] -- Microscopic elasticity of complex systems / J. -L. Barrat -- Mesoscopic simulations for problems with hydrodynamics, with emphasis on polymer dynamics / B. Dünweg -- Polymer dynamics: long time simulations and topological constraints / K. Kremer -- Reaction kinetics of coarse-grained equilibrium polymers: a brownian dynamics study / C. -C Huang ... [et al.] -- Equilibration and coarse-graining methods for polymers / D. N. Theodorou -- Drug-target binding investigated by quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) methods / U. Rothlisberger and P. Carloni -- Redox free energies from vertical energy gaps: Ab Initio molecular dynamics implementation / J. Blumberger and M. Sprik -- Advanced car-parrinello techniques: path integrals and nonadiabaticity in condensed matter simulations / D. Marx -- Evolutionary design in biological physics and materials science / M. Yang, J.-M. Park, and M. W. Deem -- Monte-Carlo methods in studies of protein folding and evolution / E. Shakhnovich.