Revisiting the Complexity of Finding Globally Minimum Energy Configurations in Atomic Clusters
Abstract
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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.
10 pages
10 pages