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On the coupling of intermolecular polarization and repulsion through pseudo-potentials

Söderhjelm, Pär LU and Öhrn, Anders LU (2009) In Chemical Physics Letters 468(1-3). p.94-99
Abstract
To improve the accuracy and transferability of molecular mechanics force fields, one needs a simple physical description of intermolecular polarization based on quantum chemistry. Ideally, in the quantum-chemical description, each molecule is treated separately and the interactions with other molecules are included as a perturbation. We propose a simple formulation of this perturbation, viz. to model the electrostatic part of the interactions exactly and the repulsive counterpart by a two-parameter pseudo-potential. Tests on three dimers at the Hartree–Fock and MP2 levels show that the interaction energies and the polarized charge densities are well reproduced.
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0009-2614
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10.1016/j.cplett.2008.11.074
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