A new potential, with an improved stacking-fault energy, was constructed by using the force-matching method. The potential was fitted to an ab initio force data-base and to various experimental data. By using a slightly larger cut-off, it was found that the new potential gave the relaxed stacking-fault energy in the experimental range, without changing the excellent thermal and surface properties of the original force-matching potential of Ercolessi and Adams.

Aluminium Interatomic Potential from Density Functional Theory Calculations with Improved Stacking Fault Energy. X.Y.Liu, F.Ercolessi, J.B.Adams: Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, 2004, 12[4], 665-70