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Energy Landscapes: Applications to Clusters, Biomolecules and Glasses

This book aims to provide a self-contained account of energy landscape theory and how it is used in studies of clusters, biomolecules and glasses. Many groups are now attempting to understand how the properties of systems ranging from small molecules to proteins and glasses are determined by the ene...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: David Wales
Format: Printed Book
Published: Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge University Press 2004
Series:Cambridge Molecular Science
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction; 2. The Born-Oppenheimer approximation and normal modes; 3. Symmetry considerations; 4. Features of the landscape; 5. Describing the landscape; 6. Exploring the landscape; 7. Properties of the landscape; 8. Clusters; 9. Biomolecules; 10. Glasses and supercooled liquids.