Traveling through potential energy landscapes of disordered materials: The activation-relaxation technique
Traveling through potential energy landscapes of disordered materials: The activation-relaxation technique
A detailed description of the activation-relaxation technique (ART) is presented. This method defines events in the configurational energy landscape of disordered materials such as amorphous semiconductors, glasses and polymers, in a two-step process: first, a configuration is activated from a local minimum to a nearby saddle point; next, the configuration …