Rydberg Function as an Interatomic Potential for Metals

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Abstract
The Rydberg potential has been applied to a number of body-centered and face-centered cubic metals. The parameters of the potential were calculated using the experimental values for the energy of vaporization, the lattice constant, and the compressibility. Results have been obtained for the elastic constants, for the equation-of-state curves, and for the volume dependence of the cohesive energy. They are compared with those obtained using the Morse potential, and with the experimental data. For the elastic constants, the results by the two potentials are not very different, but a significant improvement has been obtained in several cases for the equation of state and for the volume dependence of the cohesive energy.

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