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An efficient machine-learning-based method combined with a conventional local optimization technique has been proposed for exploring local energy minima of interstitial species in a crystal. In the proposed method, an effective initial…
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We investigate the properties of quantum annealing applied to the random field Ising model in one, two and three dimensions. The decay rate of the residual energy, defined as the energy excess from the ground state, is find to be…
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It has previously been proven that finding the globally minimum energy configuration of an atomic cluster belongs in the class of NP-hard problems. However, this proof is limited only to homonuclear clusters. This paper presents a new proof…
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