Abstract
Improved values of the van der Waals energy coefficients are presented for 16 alkali halides using more recent electronic polarizabilities and, for each ion, three alternative values of the effective number of electrons. The statistical method of calculating interionic potentials is used to obtain the correlation energy at small interionic separations and the values are scaled to fit the van der Waals energy at large separation. The resultant correlation energy as a function of interionic separation is fitted to both a cubic polynomial and a cr−6 analytic form. The extent to which the van der Waals interactions are quenched by ionic overlap is derived and contrasted with Catlow et al. work on this effect.
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