Unfortunately, I know of no complete references for creating EAM
potentials. And it is a long messy business. The best I can do
is recommend papers which describe the creation of specific
potentials. The relevant authors are M. I. Baskes, R. A. Johnson,
A. F. Voter, D. Farkas.
A reference describing our own potentials:
Dislocation Generation and Crack Propagation in Metals
Examined in Molecular Dynamics Simulations;
Mat. Res. Soc. Proc. 278:173-178 (1992);
Computational Methods in Materials Science,
J. A. Rifkin, C. S. Becquart, D. Kim and P. C. Clapp.
Also, some references recommended by
Furio Ercolessi of
http://www.sissa.it/furio.
Other recommendations are welcome.
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... our early work on Au is summarized with several of the messy details in
F. Ercolessi, M. Parrinello and E. Tosatti, Philos. Mag. A 58 (1988), 213.
As far as I know this is still the only Au potential which does
the Au(100) and Au(111) surface reconstructions.
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... constructing potentials using ab initio data, which was published in
F. Ercolessi and J. B. Adams, Europhys. Lett. 26 (1994), 583.
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and there is also a web page at
http://www.sissa.it/furio/forcematching.html.
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One of the best reference to put is
perhaps A. Carlsson, Solid State Phys. 43, 1 (1990).