No free lunch for effective potentials: general comment for Faraday FD144
Soft Condensed Matter
2010-01-08 v2
Abstract
I briefly review the problem of representability -- a single coarse-grained effective pair potential cannot simultaneously represent all the properties of an underlying more complex system -- as well as a few other subtleties that can arise in interpreting coarse-grained potentials.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1001.1097,
title = {No free lunch for effective potentials: general comment for Faraday FD144},
author = {Ard A. Louis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.1097},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
comment for Faraday Discussion 144: Multiscale Modelling of Soft Matter -- part of a much larger discussion on these topics