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Several recently proposed models for the interatomic potential in silicon are used to generate the interatomic force constants. These are then used to calculate the elastic constants and selected normal-mode frequencies. A comparison of the calculated and experimental values provides a test of the models. None of the models tested is completely satisfactory.
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