Surveying a potential energy surface by eigenvector-following |
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Authors: | JPK Doye DJ Wales |
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Institution: | 15. University Chemical Laboratory, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK
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Abstract: | We have developed a method to search potential energy surfaces which avoids some of the difficulties associated with trapping in local minima. Steps are directly taken between minima using eigenvector-following. Exploration of this space by low temperature Metropolis Monte Carlo is a useful global optimisation tool. This method successfully finds the lowest energy icosahedral minima of Lennard- Jones clusters from random starting configurations, but cannot find the global minimum in a reasonable time for difficult cases such as the 38-atom Lennard-Jones cluster where the face-centred-cubic truncated octahedron is lowest in energy. However, by performing searches at higher temperatures, we have found a pathway between the truncated octahedron and the lowest energy icosahedral minima. Such a pathway may be illustrative of some of the structural transformations that are observed for supported metal clusters by electron microscopy. |
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