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Monte Carlo Simulations in Condensed Matter Physics

Fall 2003

Syllabus

1. Week of 8-25-2003

Introduction to Unix, Matlab, C
Creating an initial configuration of particles
• Matlab Tutorial
• Exercises 1 (pdf)
• inirectangular.m
• plotconfig.m
• inirectangular.c
• inirectangular.make

 
2. Week of 9-1-2003

Soft disk fluid
• Notes (pdf)

 
3. Week of 9-8-2003

Molecular Dynamics Simulations
• Exercises 2 (pdf)
• fumlj.m
• fconfigplot.m
• fvirial.m
• fpairdist.m
• md2dfluid.m
• fmdini.m
• f2dfluid.m
• fvdist.m

 
4. Week of 9-15-2003

Monte Carlo simulations of the Ising model
• Notes 1 (pdf)
• Notes 2 (pdf)
• ising_visual.m

 
5. Week of 9-22-2003

Phase transitions and MC simulations of the Ising model
• Exercises 3 (pdf)
• rantest2d.m
• rantestbin.m
• randmod.m
• ising_corr.m
• ising2d.c
• ising2d.make