eprintid: 17963 rev_number: 19 userid: 1419 dir: disk0/00/01/79/63 datestamp: 2013-03-29 16:14:46 lastmod: 2019-02-02 15:56:01 status_changed: 2013-03-29 16:14:46 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 eprint_status: archive creators_name: Munro, LJ creators_name: Tharrington, A creators_name: Jordan, KD creators_email: creators_email: creators_email: jordan@pitt.edu creators_id: creators_id: creators_id: JORDAN title: Global optimization and finite temperature simulations of atomic clusters: Use of XenArm clusters as test systems ispublished: pub divisions: sch_as_chemistry full_text_status: public abstract: The large potential energy barriers separating local minima on the potential energy surface of cluster systems pose serious problems for optimization and simulation methods. This article discusses algorithms for dealing with these problems. Lennard-Jones clusters are used to illustrate the important issues. In addition, the complexities in going from one-component to binary Lennard-Jones clusters are explored. © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. date: 2002-05-01 date_type: published publication: Computer Physics Communications volume: 145 number: 1 pagerange: 1 - 23 refereed: TRUE issn: 0010-4655 id_number: 10.1016/S0010-4655(01)00430-1 citation: Munro, LJ and Tharrington, A and Jordan, KD (2002) Global optimization and finite temperature simulations of atomic clusters: Use of XenArm clusters as test systems. Computer Physics Communications, 145 (1). 1 - 23. ISSN 0010-4655 document_url: http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/17963/1/licence.txt