Ground-State Configurations of 2D Clusters of Classical Charged Particles
G. Kamieniarz a,b and P. Sobczak a
a Institute of Physics, A. Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
b Max Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
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Received: 9 07 2007;
The ground-state configurations of the classical point-charge particles were calculated using a new genetic-algorithm-based approach. The structures obtained confirmed the recent Monte Carlo findings, including the metastable states.
DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.113.477
PACS numbers: 68.65.-k, 45.05.+x, 52.27.Lw