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Ground states and formal duality relations in the Gaussian core model
Henry Cohn1, Abhinav Kumar, Achill Schürmann
1Microsoft Research New England, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA. cohn@microsoft.com
Abstract:
We study dimensional trends in ground states for soft-matter systems. Specifically, using a high-dimensional version of Parrinello-Rahman dynamics, we investigate the behavior of the Gaussian core model in up to eight dimensions. The results include unexpected geometric structures, with surprising anisotropy as well as formal duality relations. These duality relations suggest that the Gaussian core model possesses unexplored symmetries, and they have implications for a broad range of soft-core potentials.
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