Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
9575130 Chemical Physics 2005 5 Pages PDF
Abstract
A flexible potential energy function is proposed herein on the basis of classical potential functions of Lennard-Jones, Morse, Buckingham and Linnett. By introducing two indices, which range from 0 to 1, the proposed function can either be reduced to the classical potentials by fixing the indices at their extremes or be used as a flexible function for curve-fitting interatomic energy data over a broad range of interatomic distance. In a departure from previous effort that give exact parametric relationships only at the minimum well-depth, the present paper quantitatively accounts for the discrepancies at very large interatomic compression and stretching.
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