TY - JOUR
T1 - Analytic potential energy functions for aluminum clusters
AU - Jasper, Ahren W.
AU - Staszewski, Przemysław
AU - Staszewska, Grazyna
AU - Schultz, Nathan E.
AU - Truhlar, Donald G.
PY - 2004/7/1
Y1 - 2004/7/1
N2 - Nineteen analytic potential energy functions (PEFs) for aluminum (three pairwise additive ones, six nonpairwise additive ones with three-body terms, and ten embedded atom-type PEFs) were obtained from the literature. The PEFs were tested and reparametrized using a diverse training set that includes 20 potential energy curves and a total of 224 geometries for five aluminum clusters Al N (N = 2, 3, 4, 7, and 13) computed using hybrid density functional theory, as well as the experimental face-centered cubic cohesive energy and lattice constant. The best PEFs from the literature have mean unsigned errors (MUEs) over the clusters in the data set of ∼0.12 eV/atom. The best reparametrized PEFs from the literature have MUEs of 0.06 eV/atom. The data set is also used to develop, parametrize, and systematically study the effectiveness of several functional forms designed specifically to model many-body effects in clusters, including bond angle, screening, and coordination number effects; a total of eighteen new PEFs are proposed and tested. The best potential overall has an MUE of 0.05 eV/atom, explicitly includes screening and coordination number effects, features linear scaling, and incorporates the accurate two-body and bulk limits.
AB - Nineteen analytic potential energy functions (PEFs) for aluminum (three pairwise additive ones, six nonpairwise additive ones with three-body terms, and ten embedded atom-type PEFs) were obtained from the literature. The PEFs were tested and reparametrized using a diverse training set that includes 20 potential energy curves and a total of 224 geometries for five aluminum clusters Al N (N = 2, 3, 4, 7, and 13) computed using hybrid density functional theory, as well as the experimental face-centered cubic cohesive energy and lattice constant. The best PEFs from the literature have mean unsigned errors (MUEs) over the clusters in the data set of ∼0.12 eV/atom. The best reparametrized PEFs from the literature have MUEs of 0.06 eV/atom. The data set is also used to develop, parametrize, and systematically study the effectiveness of several functional forms designed specifically to model many-body effects in clusters, including bond angle, screening, and coordination number effects; a total of eighteen new PEFs are proposed and tested. The best potential overall has an MUE of 0.05 eV/atom, explicitly includes screening and coordination number effects, features linear scaling, and incorporates the accurate two-body and bulk limits.
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U2 - 10.1021/jp049164i
DO - 10.1021/jp049164i
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:3142713191
SN - 1520-6106
VL - 108
SP - 8996
EP - 9010
JO - Journal of Physical Chemistry B
JF - Journal of Physical Chemistry B
IS - 26
ER -