Identifying the minimum-energy atomic configuration on a lattice: Lamarckian twist on Darwinian evolution

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  D'Avezac, Mayeul ^a   Zunger, Alex ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 49249095062     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.064102     Document Type: Article

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