2021
DOI: 10.1002/qua.26808
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A comparative review of 50 analytical representation of potential energy interaction for diatomic systems: 100 years of history

Abstract: Interatomic potentials laid at the heart of molecular physics. They are a bridge between the spectroscopic and structural properties of molecular systems. In this paper, a century‐old review from 1920 to 2020, of functional forms used to analytically represent potential energy as a function of interatomic distance for diatomic systems is presented. With such a purpose 50 functions were selected. For all of them, motivation and the main mathematical features are discussed. Our goal is to provide a chronological… Show more

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“…For a comprehensive overview of empirical potentials we recommend the work of Araújo and Ballester [2]. Below we give a casual overview of the most important empirical potentials mentioned in this contribution.…”
Section: Empirical Potentialsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For a comprehensive overview of empirical potentials we recommend the work of Araújo and Ballester [2]. Below we give a casual overview of the most important empirical potentials mentioned in this contribution.…”
Section: Empirical Potentialsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Unfortunately, the choice of suitable approximants may be a complicated task because the shapes of the genuine functions are not known a priori and because the elementary mathematical functions available may not be flexible enough (see, e.g., refs and references therein). Therefore, despite the broad variety of their literature variants (especially in the case of the potential energy function), they easily become rather too awkward to allow “smooth” fitting. For instance, to describe quantitatively an ab initio potential energy function of He 2 supporting only one bound state, Janzen and Aziz had to use 45 fitting parameters, and even the best approximants directly fitted to experimental data (see, e.g., ref ) may still not provide reliable predictions.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Up to now, many exponential-type potentials, including the Morse [30,31], Hulthén [32][33][34][35][36][37][38], Woods-Saxon [27,[39][40][41][42][43], Rosen-Morse [44][45][46][47][48], Eckart-type [49][50][51], Manning-Rosen [52][53][54], Deng-Fan [55,56], Pöschl-Teller like [57], Mathieu [58], sine-type hyperbolic [59] and Schiöberg [60][61][62][63] potentials have been investigated, and some analytical bound state solutions were obtained using an approximation for these models in l ≠ 0 state. Some known exponential potentials can also be transformed into a hyperbolic potential model, which can help understand quantum systems' natural dynamics [64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75]<...…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%