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potfit supports two very different ways of defining a potential. Both ways use some parameters <math>\alpha_i\,</math> to define a potential, but they have very different meanings.

There are tabulated potentials and analytic potentials. The main differences are given in the table below.

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*Many parameters * Local parameters * arbitrary function

*few parameters *global parameters * physical meaning

models/main.1362054241.txt.gz · Last modified: 2013/02/28 13:24 by daniel