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Saddle Points

Saddle Point is a critical point on a potential energy surface characterized by a local maximum along the reaction pathway and local minima in all orthogonal directions, serving as a transition state between reactants and products in phase plane analysis of reaction dynamics.

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A climbing image nudged elastic band method for finding saddle points and minimum energy paths

Graeme Henkelman, Blas P. Uberuaga, Hannes Jónsson · The Journal of Chemical Physics · 2000 · 21.2K citations

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Improved tangent estimate in the nudged elastic band method for finding minimum energy paths and saddle points

Graeme Henkelman, Hannes Jónsson · The Journal of Chemical Physics · 2000 · 9.4K citations

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A dimer method for finding saddle points on high dimensional potential surfaces using only first derivatives

Graeme Henkelman, Hannes Jónsson · The Journal of Chemical Physics · 1999 · 3.4K citations

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The extragradient method for finding saddle points and other problems

G. M. Korpelevich · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1976 · 1.6K citations

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Accelerated molecular dynamics: A promising and efficient simulation method for biomolecules

Donald Hamelberg, John Mongan, J. Andrew McCammon · The Journal of Chemical Physics · 2004 · 1.6K citations

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    Wolfgang Quapp

    Leipzig University, Germany

    22 publications · 1.1K citations

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    Hannes Jónsson

    University of Iceland, Iceland

    16 publications · 35.9K citations

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    Graeme Henkelman

    The University of Texas at Austin, United States

    13 publications · 35.7K citations

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  4. DG
    Donald G. Truhlar

    University of Minnesota, United States

    11 publications · 1.3K citations

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  5. TK
    Tamiki Komatsuzaki

    Hokkaido University, Japan

    12 publications · 385 citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

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  2. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

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  3. University of Minnesota

    Minneapolis, United States

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  4. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

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    51 publications

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  5. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

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  6. University of Bristol

    Bristol, United Kingdom

    20 h-index

    44 publications

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  7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

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  8. Leipzig University

    Leipzig, Germany

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    47 publications

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  2. arXiv (Cornell University)

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  3. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 55 publications · 4.5K citations

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  5. Journal of High Energy Physics

    JHEP · 35 publications · 1.8K citations

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