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Autori principali: Carmona, Oliver, Rodríguez-Kessler, Peter Ludwig, Salazar-Colores, Sebastián, Muñoz-Castro, Alvaro
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25938
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author Carmona, Oliver
Rodríguez-Kessler, Peter Ludwig
Salazar-Colores, Sebastián
Muñoz-Castro, Alvaro
author_facet Carmona, Oliver
Rodríguez-Kessler, Peter Ludwig
Salazar-Colores, Sebastián
Muñoz-Castro, Alvaro
contents We present an adaptive and parallel implementation of the Basin Hopping (BH) algorithm for the global optimization of atomic clusters interacting via the Lennard-Jones (LJ) potential. The method integrates local energy minimization with adaptive step-size Monte Carlo moves and simultaneous evaluation of multiple trial structures, enabling efficient exploration of complex potential energy landscapes while maintaining a balance between exploration and refinement. Parallel evaluation of candidate structures significantly reduces wall-clock time, achieving nearly linear speedup for up to eight concurrent local minimizations. This framework provides a practical and scalable strategy to accelerate Basin Hopping searches, directly extendable to ab initio calculations such as density functional theory (DFT) on high-performance computing architectures.
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spellingShingle Revisiting and Accelerating the Basin Hopping Algorithm for Lennard-Jones Clusters: Adaptive and Parallel Implementation in Python
Carmona, Oliver
Rodríguez-Kessler, Peter Ludwig
Salazar-Colores, Sebastián
Muñoz-Castro, Alvaro
Materials Science
80A50, 82D80
We present an adaptive and parallel implementation of the Basin Hopping (BH) algorithm for the global optimization of atomic clusters interacting via the Lennard-Jones (LJ) potential. The method integrates local energy minimization with adaptive step-size Monte Carlo moves and simultaneous evaluation of multiple trial structures, enabling efficient exploration of complex potential energy landscapes while maintaining a balance between exploration and refinement. Parallel evaluation of candidate structures significantly reduces wall-clock time, achieving nearly linear speedup for up to eight concurrent local minimizations. This framework provides a practical and scalable strategy to accelerate Basin Hopping searches, directly extendable to ab initio calculations such as density functional theory (DFT) on high-performance computing architectures.
title Revisiting and Accelerating the Basin Hopping Algorithm for Lennard-Jones Clusters: Adaptive and Parallel Implementation in Python
topic Materials Science
80A50, 82D80
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25938