Intermolecular interaction potentials of methane－argon complex calculated using LDA approaches

The intermolecular interaction potential for methane－argon complex is calculated by local density approximation (LDA) approaches. The calculated potential has a minimum when the intermolecular distance of methane－argon complex is 6.75 a.u.; the corresponding depth of the potential is 0.0163eV which has good agreement with experimental data. We also have made a nonlinear fitting of our results for the Lennard-Jones (12-6) potential function and obtain that V(R)=143794365.332/R^12-3032.093 / R^6 (R in a.u. and V(R) in eV).