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<h5>Introduction<a class="headerlink" href="#Introduction" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h5>
<p>The diatom_scan calculation style evaluates the interaction energy between two atoms at varying distances. This provides a measure of the isolated pair interaction of two atoms providing insights into the strengths of the attraction/repulsion and the effective range of interatomic spacings. This scan also gives insight into the computational smoothness of the potential’s fun