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Heuristic Methods for Finding Ground-states of Ising Models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2011

Hugues J. Lassalle
Affiliation:
Florida Atlantic University, Physics Department, Boca Raton, FL 33431, U.S.A.
Luc T. Wille
Affiliation:
Florida Atlantic University, Physics Department, Boca Raton, FL 33431, U.S.A.
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Abstract

We describe rhe application of simulated annealing and genetic algorithms to determine the ground-state of various classes of Lsing models. This problem is relevant to finding equilibrium contigurations(at zero Kelvin)of adsorbed monolayers, multi-component alloys, and magnetic systems. Because of the presence of metastable configurations (local minima) the detection of the ground-state (global minimum) is a non-trivial problem, especially in the case of complex interactions or frustrated systems. The speed of convergends analyzed for various model systems.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2002

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