2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/84818It 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 pagesAtomic and Molecular Clusterstext