Title
Exploring high-dimensional energy landscapes
Abstract
Maps are not reserved for geography. Chemical reactions, atomic diffusion and protein folding all involve atomic displacements determined by the topography of a complex energy landscape. These landscapes are largely unexplored, and our first priority is to identify their key features: the energy minima and the connecting paths between them. Such a study represents a formidable task. The effort needed to map a space increases exponentially with its dimensionality and becomes rapidly out of reach for the high-dimensional problems of interest in physics, chemistry and biology. Therefore, we have to satisfy ourselves with only a very crude knowledge of these energy landscapes. Recently, many researchers have been developing algorithms for exploring and mapping the potential energy landscapes of systems as diverse as polypeptides, chemical reactions, Lennard-Jones clusters and silica glass. In this article, we address some of the general issues and present an algorithm, called the activation-relaxation technique (ART), which we developed for mapping high-dimensional landscapes
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1109/5992.753050
Computing in Science and Engineering
Field
DocType
Volume
Cluster (physics),Computer science,Theoretical computer science,Maxima and minima,Curse of dimensionality,Algorithm theory,Potential energy,Energy landscape
Journal
1
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
1521-9615
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.46
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Normand Mousseau182.02
Gerard T. Barkema2363.24