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Physical systems evolve from one state to another along paths of least energy barrier. Without a priori knowledge of the energy landscape, multidimensional search methods aim to find such minimum energy pathways between the initial and…
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Introducing genetic algorithms as a reliable and efficient tool to find ordered equilibrium structures, we predict minimum energy configurations of the square shoulder system for different values of corona width $\lambda$. Varying…