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In computational chemistry, the embedded atom model, or EAM is an approximation describing the energy between two atoms. Computational chemistry is a branch of chemistry that uses the results of theoretical chemistry incorporated into efficient computer programs to calculate the structures and properties of molecules and solids, applying these programs to real chemical problems. ...
Neutral atoms and molecules are subject to two distinct forces in the limit of large distance, and short distance: an attractive van der Waals force, or dispersion force, at long ranges, and a repulsion force, the result of overlapping electron orbitals, referred to as Pauli repulsion (from Pauli exclusion principle). ...