This directory contains potential files for different elements and alloys, as used by LAMMPS for various pair styles. See the description of the "pair_style" and "pair_coeff" commands for details of the file formats and the various styles in LAMMPS that read these files.

The suffix of each file indicates the pair style it is used with:

eam embedded atom method (EAM) single element, DYNAMO funcfl format eam.alloy EAM multi-element alloy, DYNAMO setfl format eam.fs Finnis-Sinclair EAM multi-element alloy meam modified EAM (MEAM) library and individual elements/alloys sw Stillinger-Weber potential tersoff Tersoff potential airebo AI-REBO (Brenner) potential