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Metal Potentials

The simulation of metals by DL_POLY_2 makes use of density dependent potentials of the Sutton-Chen type [7]. The dependence on the atomic density presents no difficulty however, as this class of potentials can be resolved into pair contributions. This permits the use of the distributed Verlet neighbour list outlined above.



W Smith 2003-05-12