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The study of the structure and physical properties of atomic clusters is an extremely active area of research due to their importance, both in fundamental science and in applied technology. For medium size atomic clusters most of the structures reported today have been obtained by local optimizations of plausible structures using DFT (Density Functional Theory) methods and/or by global optimizations in which much more approximate methods are used to calculate the cluster’s energetics. Our previous work shows that these approaches can not be reliably used to study atomic cluster structures and that approaches based on global optimization schemes are needed. In this paper, we report the implementation and application of a parallel Genetic Algorithm (GA) to predict the structure of medium size atomic clusters.
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Oña, O., Bazterra, V.E., Caputo, M.C. et al. Global Optimization of Atomic Cluster Structures Using Parallel Genetic Algorithms. MRS Online Proceedings Library 894, 08940802 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-0894-LL08-02
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