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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2000-11-29
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Saddle point, Tangent, Saddle, Tangent space, Path (computing)

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