Crystal Structure Prediction and its Application in Earth and Materials Sciences

Crystal Structure Prediction and its Application in Earth and Materials Sciences : Methods : Global optimization

1 Global optimization

1.1 Energy landscape
1.2 Global optimization methods
1.3 Evolutionary algorithm
1.4 Variation operator
1.5 Fingerprint: to prevent premature convergence
1.6 Performance and extensions

Crystal Structure Prediction and its Application in Earth and Materials Sciences