Potential wells structural-dynamical model elastic

The model has be, n shown to have good transferability when applied to a variety of crystal structures. This can be seen from Fig. 3 and Tables II and III, where the energies, vibrational and elastic properties for different coordinated crystalline structures obtained from this model are compared with first-principles LDA calculations and experiments. Applications in molecular-dynamics study of the liquid and amorphous phases of carbon as well as the structures of carbon clusters indicate that the potential does a good job of describing carbon systems over a wide range of bonding environments. These applications are reviewed in Section IV. 

---