Designing Conducting Polymers Using Bioinspired Ant Algorithms
Materials Science
2009-11-13 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
Ant algorithms are inspired in real ants and the main idea is to create virtual ants that travel into the space of possible solution depositing virtual pheromone proportional to how good a specific solution is. This creates a autocatalytic (positive feedback) process that can be used to generate automatic solutions to very difficult problems. In the present work we show that these algorithms can be used coupled to tight-binding hamiltonians to design conducting polymers with pre-specified properties. The methodology is completely general and can be used for a large number of optimization problems in materials science.
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@article{arxiv.0708.0054,
title = {Designing Conducting Polymers Using Bioinspired Ant Algorithms},
author = {Bruno V. C. Martins and Gustavo Brunetto and Fernando Sato and Vitor R. Coluci and Douglas S. Galvao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.0054},
year = {2009}
}