Warning! Note that elemental potentials taken from alloy descriptions may not work well for the pure species. This is particularly true if the elements were fit for compounds instead of being optimized separately. As with all interatomic potentials, please check to make sure that the performance is adequate for your problem.
Citation: X.G. Gong (1993), "Empirical-potential studies on the structural properties of small silicon clusters", Physical Review B, 47(4), 2329-2332. DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.47.2329.
Abstract: An empirical potential for silicon has been developed. Molecular-dynamics methods and simulated annealing techniques have been used to study the structural properties of small silicon clusters with this potential. A detailed comparison has been made between our results and those obtained from other theoretical methods. It is found that our results are close to those obtained using ab initio techniques. A significant improvement over other empirical potentials has been made.