A combined simulated annealing and quasi-Newton-like conjugate-gradient method for determining the structure of mixed argon-xenon clusters

Autor: Ionel Michael Navon, Franklin B. Brown, Daniel H. Robertson
Rok vydání: 1990
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Zdroj: Computers & Chemistry. 14:305-311
ISSN: 0097-8485
DOI: 10.1016/0097-8485(90)80037-3
Popis: This paper shows how various limited-memory quasi-Newton large-scale unconstrained minimization methods can be used to speed up the location of global minima of potential energy surfaces related to the structures of mixed Ar-Xe clusters. Both a simulated annealing method and a finite-temperature lattice-based Monte Carlo method are accelerated by the various quasi-Newton limited-memory methods which are then compared for computational efficiency.
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