The sharp cut-off of the employed bond order model potential introduces overestimated high forces between next neighbored atoms enhancing the problem of slow phase space propagation immanent to MD simulations.
This obstacle could be referred to as {\em potential enhanced slow phase space propagation}.
Due to this, pushing the time scale to the limits of computational resources or applying one of the above mentioned accelerated dynamics methods exclusively will not be sufficient enough.
Instead, the approach followed in this study, is the use of higher temperatures as exploited in TAD to find transition pathways of one local energy minimum to another one more quickly.
The sharp cut-off of the employed bond order model potential introduces overestimated high forces between next neighbored atoms enhancing the problem of slow phase space propagation immanent to MD simulations.
This obstacle could be referred to as {\em potential enhanced slow phase space propagation}.
Due to this, pushing the time scale to the limits of computational resources or applying one of the above mentioned accelerated dynamics methods exclusively will not be sufficient enough.
Instead, the approach followed in this study, is the use of higher temperatures as exploited in TAD to find transition pathways of one local energy minimum to another one more quickly.