Conclusion
The foregoing material has hopefully given some indication of the enormous amount of information that can be extracted from a diffraction experiment on a disordered material. Conventional computer simulation with assumed forces will go someway to understanding structure and in a sense is almost essential if proper account of the many body problem is to be made. In the end however the simulation data has to be confronted with the diffraction data. The Empirical Potential Structure Refinement technique is a way of testing out the assumed force potential against the data.
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Soper, A.K. (2002). Recent Advances in Structure Refinement for Liquids and Disordered Materials. In: Billinge, S.J.L., Thorpe, M.F. (eds) Local Structure from Diffraction. Fundamental Materials Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47077-2_4
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