Computer Simulations in Condensed Matter: From Materials to Chemical Biology. Volume 2, Gebunden

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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.