Use switching function for Coulomb prior #287
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Originally I scaled the Coulomb prior by$\text{erfc}(\alpha r)$ to reduce its effect at short distances. It turned out this didn't work well because it was still too short ranged. Even at distances of only 1-2 A there was already a large component of Coulomb energy. I changed it to a cosine switching function which works much better.