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ON THE PHYSICAL APPLICATION OF SIMULATED ANNEALING ALGORITHM

Electron Microscopy Laboratory, School of Material Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P.R.China

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ZHI-HUI DU

Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P.R.China

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MENG-YUE WU

Central Iron and Steel Research Institute, Beijing 100081, P.R.China

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JING ZHU

Electron Microscopy Laboratory, School of Material Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P.R.China

Central Iron and Steel Research Institute, Beijing 100081, P.R.China

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SAN-LI LI

Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P.R.China

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129183199000863Cited by:1 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

A high-performance general program is presented to deal with the multi-parameter optimization problems in physics. Considering the requirements of physical application, some small but significant modifications were made on the conventional simulated annealing algorithm. A parallel realization was suggested to further improve the performance of the program. Mathematical and physical examples were taken to test the feasibility and the efficiency of the program. The source code is available from the authors free of charge.

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