Example: Basin Hopping for Ar 13 cluster

Download BasinHopping_Ar13.run

#!/bin/sh

# This example shows how the Basin Hopping procedure can be used to find the
# global minimum (and several local minima) of an Argon-13 cluster.
# The LennardJones engine is used for computing energy and gradients.


"$AMSBIN/ams" << EOF

Task PESExploration

System
    Atoms
        Ar       3.19796865788947       1.15934987330252      -1.33239534934505
        Ar       0.77363272043336       0.86005279907579       4.44840472306942
        Ar       6.16557782618638       1.42715657126078       1.00292335487038
        Ar       1.31188973509015      -2.14075518617674      -0.96878076867831
        Ar      -2.41087887202771      -1.38658115989663      -0.47288216008194
        Ar      -0.21272211859964      -2.33529094743978       2.53956949757235
        Ar       0.68146295080450       4.04228262113743      -1.08313269600570
        Ar      -0.30271346683735       0.77172238432013      -2.86122291101125
        Ar      -2.82554186881390       0.46651994777473       2.87593685953916
        Ar       3.25381032839757      -0.76862912920592       2.01893019694943
        Ar      -2.88251373018356       2.43351471156095      -0.54320785580135
        Ar       0.18478571590318       0.93399697546301       0.81886912458718
        Ar       2.90785012175754       3.08435653882379       2.01057298433565
    End
End

PESExploration
    Job BasinHopping
    RandomSeed 10
    Temperature 50.0
    NumExpeditions 5
    NumExplorers 5
    FiniteDifference 1e-7

    BasinHopping
        Displacement 5.0
        Steps 50
        DisplacementDistribution gaussian
        WriteUnique T
    End

    Optimizer
        ConvergedForce 1e-8
        MaxIterations 1000
    End

    StructureComparison
        DistanceDifference 0.5
        NeighborCutoff 7.6
    End
End

#Engine ForceField
#EndEngine
Engine LennardJones
    Rmin 3.81749342630018000  # sigma=3.401*angs, rmin=2**(1.0/6.0)*3.401*angs
    Eps 0.000369915709507261  # eps=116.81*K
    Cutoff 15.00              # 15*angs
EndEngine

EOF