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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 146, Issue 20, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.4983392
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- IIT Indore
- University Grants Commission, India
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We propose a highly efficient method for fitting the potential energy surface of a nanocluster using a spherical harmonics based descriptor integrated with an artificial neural network. Our method achieves the accuracy of quantum mechanics and speed of empirical potentials. For large sized gold clusters (Au-147), the computational time for accurate calculation of energy and forces is about 1.7 s, which is faster by several orders of magnitude compared to density functional theory (DFT). This method is used to perform the global minimum optimizations and molecular dynamics simulations for Au-147, and it is found that its global minimum is not an icosahedron. The isomer that can be regarded as the global minimum is found to be 4 eV lower in energy than the icosahedron and is confirmed from DFT. The geometry of the obtained global minimum contains 105 atoms on the surface and 42 atoms in the core. A brief study on the fluxionality in Au-147 is performed, and it is concluded that Au-147 has a dynamic surface, thus opening a new window for studying its reaction dynamics. Published by AIP Publishing.
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