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A flexible nudged elastic band program for optimization of minimum energy pathways using ab initio electronic structure methods

✍ Scribed by Dominic R. Alfonso; Kenneth D. Jordan


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
145 KB
Volume
24
Category
Article
ISSN
0192-8651

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Abstract

A driver program for carrying out nudged elastic band optimizations of minimum energy reaction pathways is described. This approach allows for the determination of minimum energy pathways using only energies and gradient information. The driver code has been interfaced with the GAUSSIAN 98 program. Applications to two isomerization reactions and to a cluster model for H~2~ desorption from the Si(100)‐2x1 surface are presented. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Chem 24: 990–996, 2003