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View SchemaRevisiting the Complexity of Finding Globally Minimum Energy Configurations in Atomic Clusters
| Authors | G. W. Greenwood |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0207082 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0207082 |
| Journal | Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie 211 (1999) 105-114 |
Abstract
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 which shows finding minimum energy configurations for heteronuclear clusters is also NP-hard.
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