%0 Journal Article
%T The Activation-Relaxation Technique: ART Nouveau and Kinetic ART
%A Normand Mousseau
%A Laurent Karim B¨Śland
%A Peter Brommer
%A Jean-Fran ois Joly
%A Fedwa El-Mellouhi
%A Eduardo Machado-Charry
%A Mihai-Cosmin Marinica
%A Pascal Pochet
%J Journal of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
%D 2012
%I Hindawi Publishing Corporation
%R 10.1155/2012/925278
%X The evolution of many systems is dominated by rare activated events that occur on timescale ranging from nanoseconds to the hour or more. For such systems, simulations must leave aside the full thermal description to focus specifically on mechanisms that generate a configurational change. We present here the activation relaxation technique (ART), an open-ended saddle point search algorithm, and a series of recent improvements to ART nouveau and kinetic ART, an ART-based on-the-fly off-lattice self-learning kinetic Monte Carlo method.
%U http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jamop/2012/925278/