Ewald Sum. Self Interaction 1.

• In Ewald sum, each point charge is replaced by smeared Gaussian centered on that charge

  • this is done to estimate the electrostatic potential field

• All point charges interact with the resulting field to yield the potential energy

  • This means that the point charge interacts with its smeared representation
  • We need to subtract this

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