Event-Based Relaxation of Continuous Disordered Systems.

A computational approach is presented to obtain energy-minimized structures in glassy materials. This approach, the activation-relaxation technique (ART), achieves its efficiency by focusing on significant changes in the microscopic structure (events). The application of ART is illustrated with two examples: the structure of amorphous silicon and the structure of Ni{sub 80}P{sub 20}, a metallic glass. {copyright} {ital 1996 The American Physical Society.}