Basin-hopping Monte Carlo
Basin-hopping Monte Carlo is a technique used locate global minima on a potential energy surface.
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Related reading
- David J. Wales and Jonathan P. K. Doye "Global Optimization by Basin-Hopping and the Lowest Energy Structures of Lennard-Jones Clusters Containing up to 110 Atoms", Journal of Physical Chemistry 101 pp. 5111-5116 (1997)
- Jonathan P. K. Doye and David J. Wales "Global minima for transition metal clusters described by Sutton–Chen potentials", New Journal of Chemistry 22 pp. 733-744 (1998)