There are many popular interatomic potentials, please see the following links:
EAM : Daw, Murray S.; Mike Baskes. "Embedded-atom method: Derivation and application to impurities, surfaces, and other defects in metals". Physical Review B (American Physical Society) 29 (12): 6443–6453.
Bond-order potentials : Pettifor, D. G.; I. I. Oleinik (1999). "Analytic bond-order potentials beyond TersofF Brenner. I. Theory". Phys. Rev. B59: 8487. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.59.8487
Multibody expansions : The authors developed perfectly transferrable many body potentials in the following paper
Hi Cao Ma, There are
Hi Cao Ma,
There are many popular interatomic potentials, please see the following links:
EAM : Daw, Murray S.; Mike Baskes. "Embedded-atom method: Derivation and application to impurities, surfaces, and other defects in metals". Physical Review B (American Physical Society) 29 (12): 6443–6453.
Bond-order potentials : Pettifor, D. G.; I. I. Oleinik (1999). "Analytic bond-order potentials beyond TersofF Brenner. I. Theory". Phys. Rev. B 59: 8487. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.59.8487
Multibody expansions : The authors developed perfectly transferrable many body potentials in the following paper
http://prb.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v77/i6/e064101