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van der Waals interactions<br />

• Atoms repel each other at close distance<br />

due to overlap of electrons (repulsion)<br />

• All atoms attrach each other at long<br />

distance due to induced dipole effects<br />

(dispersion)<br />

Example - Buckingham potential:<br />

V (r)=Aexp Br + C 6<br />

r 6<br />

Same problem as before:<br />

exp(r) is slow to calculate

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