1529-6466/01/0042-0002$05.00 DOI:10.2138/rmg.2001.42.2 Simulating the Crystal Structures and Properties of Ionic Materials From Interatomic Potentials

Over the past decade computer simulation techniques have become an increasingly valuable tool in science as an aid to the interpretation of experimental data and as a means of yielding an atomic level model (Catlow et al. 1994; Wright et al. 1992). The scope of such methods has advanced alongside the developments in computationa