This book, of interest to researchers and advanced students of theoretical condensed matter physics, reports on the rapidly developing field of calculation of total energies and interatomic interactions in solids, including applications to computer simulation of structural and electronic properties of materials.

Inhalt
I General Reviews.- to Many-Atom Interactions in Solids.- Volume and Pair Forces in Solids and Liquids.- The Effective-Medium Theory.- The Embedded Atom Method: A Review.- From Exact to Approximate Theory: The Tight Binding Bond Model and Many-Body Potentials.- Implications of the Embedded-Atom Method Format.- Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Materials Phenomena.- Atoms Embedded in Electron Gas.- The Structural and Electronic Properties of Molten Metals, Semimetals, and Semiconductors.- II Metals.- First-Principles Interatomic Potentials in Transition Metals: Multi-ion Interactions and Their Analytic Representation.- The Effective-Medium Theory Beyond the Nearest Neighbour Interaction.- Defect Migration in Perfect Lattices.- Dynamic Simulations of Dislocation Core Structures in Gold Using Many- Atom Interactions.- One-Electron Energy Corrections in the Effective-Medium Theory: Application to Copper Clusters.- Dynamic Methods for Electronic Problems.- III Semiconductors and Covalent Materials.- Simulated Annealing Studies of Sulphur and Selenium Clusters.- Effective-Medium Theory: Considering Corrections and Delimitations.- Improved Tight Binding Parameters for Silicon.- A Pair Potential Model of Covalent Bonding in Silicon.- Derivation of Angular Forces for Semiconductors and Transition Metals.- Molecular Dynamics and Tight-Binding.- IV Surface Phenomena.- Linear Surface Model and the Environment-Dependent Effective Pair Potential.- Simulation of Surface Premelting.- Hydrogen Diffusion on Metal Surfaces Nonadiabatic Effects.- Molecular Dynamics Simulations for Molecular Beam Epitaxy.- Initial Stages of Oxidation of Al(lll).- Index of Contributors.