Contributors

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.