Improved tangent estimate in the nudged elastic band method for finding minimum energy paths and saddle points
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Summary
An improved way of estimating the local tangent in the nudged elastic band method for finding minimum energy paths is presented, and examples given where a complementary method, the dimer method, is used to efficiently converge to the saddle point.
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- article
- Published
- 2000-11-29
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- 8,454
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Keywords
Saddle point, Tangent, Saddle, Tangent space, Path (computing)
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