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David J Wales1, Peter Salamon.
Abstract
When structures that interconvert on a given time scale are lumped together, the corresponding free-energy surface becomes a function of the observation time. This view is equivalent to grouping structures that are connected by free-energy barriers below a certain threshold. We illustrate this time dependence for some benchmark systems, namely atomic clusters and alanine dipeptide, highlighting the connections to broken ergodicity, local equilibrium, and "feasible" symmetry operations of the molecular Hamiltonian.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 24374625 PMCID: PMC3896148 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1319599111
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN: 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205