Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4358–4361 (1996)Event-Based Relaxation of Continuous Disordered SystemsReceived 23 July 1996; published in the issue dated 18 November 1996 A computational approach is presented to obtain energy-minimized structures in glassy materials. This approach, the activation-relaxation technique (ART), achieves its efficiency by focusing on significant changes in the microscopic structure (events). The application of ART is illustrated with two examples: the structure of amorphous silicon and the structure of Ni80P20, a metallic glass. © 1996 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.4358
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.4358
PACS:
61.43.Dq, 02.70.Rw, 73.61.Jc, 82.20.Wt
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