1 Erratum to: Appl. Phys. A (2017) 123:257 DOI 10.1007/s00339-017-0872-y

The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake.

The legend of Fig. 1 was incorrect. The correct legend is given here.

Fig. 1 Pair potentials and their first and second derivatives as functions of the reduced distance r/r1 for FCC metals Al, Ni, and Ir (the unit of pair potential is eV. The left column is the pair potentials, the middle column the first derivatives, and the right column the second derivatives)