Study of the potential curves of xenon with other rare gas atoms

The model for the forces between closed shell atoms recently developed by Gordon and Kim is applied to the ground state potential energy curves of Xe–Xe, Xe–He, Xe–Ne, Xe–Ar, and Xe–Kr. Agreement between experimentally determined values of the distance between the nuclei at the potential minimum and the depth of the potential well is quite good considering the simplicity of the calculation.