title: Characterizing potential surface topographies through the distribution of saddles and minima.
abstract: Three related clusters of thirteen particles bound by pairwise Morse potentials with different ranges are the vehicles for relating the dynamics and kinetics of these clusters to the topographies of their energy landscapes. The analyses are based on the distributions of minima and saddles, on the asymmetries of the barriers and the kinetics of passage among the energy bands that the distributions of minima display. While all three of the examples are essentially structure-seekers, the extent of this character is clearly related to the range of the potential.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and The James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, 5735 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637-1403, USA.
authors.forename: Graham
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cox
authors.forename: R Stephen
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Berry
authors.forename: Roy L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Johnston