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One of the methods to find the global minimum of a potential energy surface of a molecular system is simulated annealing. The main idea of simulated annealing is to start you system at a high temperature and then slowly cool it down so that there is a chance for the atoms in the system to explore the different degrees of freedom and ultimately find the global minimum. Simulated annealing is traditionally...