Modeling: What has it Really Contributed?

Abstract

We often read that neutron scattering sees “where atoms are and how they move.” In truth, this is an indirect view in reciprocal space. Modeling's contribution has been to make this a reality by confronting neutron-scattering data with a real-space model (Figure 1). To do this properly, we need good algorithms and computing power, but the advantages are many-fold: