Many different people have contributed to the potfit code.
This list shows who was responsible for which parts of potfit:
| Name | Contribution |
|---|---|
| Peter Brommer | Original idea and author of potfit Tabulated EAM potentials Simulated annealing and least squares optimization |
| Franz Gähler | Original idea and author of potfit Tabulated pair potentials |
| Daniel Schopf | Analytic potentials ADP implementation Evolutionary optimization MEAM adaptation Tersoff and Tersoffmod potential (from IMD) Stillinger-Weber potential (from IMD) |
| Philipp Beck | Coulomb and Dipole interactions |
| Sergey Starikov and Vladimir Stegailov | Preliminary MEAM implementation |
| Jeremy Nicklas | MEAM implementation |
| Ben Palmer | TBEAM implementation |
| Mingjian Wen | KIM support |
| Ariel Lozano | angular pair and elstat implementation |
Most of these people can be contacted via the potfit mailing list.