What is "c" in the formula for potential energy? Is it the distance between Na and Cl ions?

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Molecular Simulation - Equilibrium Configurations of Na₄Cl₄ Tetramers: This repository contains code and analysis for a computational physics homework assignment focused on simulating and determining the equilibrium configurations of Na₄Cl₄ clusters for tetramers (n=4).

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What is "c" in the formula for potential energy? Is it the distance between Na and Cl ions? #41

Closed Pranjal-Srivastava-2023 closed 12 months ago

reshnashrestha commented 12 months ago

a term to stabilize (or "regularize") the computation at small distances with:

$$b = 1.0\;\mathrm{eV}$$

$$c = 0.01\;\mathrm{nm}$$

pratibha77118 commented 12 months ago

Is it the constant term used for Pauli repulsive energy?