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Model

The failures of the static lattice model give strong evidence that it is desirable to take into account the motion of the ions. The regular X-ray patterns show that the formerly assumed regular lattice sites still do play a fundamental rôle. So we consider a set of ions at positions , with masses and average positions , and subject to a pairwise interaction potential . Thus the whole energy due to ion-ion interactions is

 


Michael Gruber
Michael.Gruber@Uni-Augsburg.DE