Self-consistent calculation of the forces between two metallic half spaces
Abstract
A simple model of the forces between two pieces of the same metals is solved self-consistently within a local density-functional approximation for the total energy. The results are compared with a recent calculation of non-local Van der Waals forces and the implications for the surface energy of metals are discussed.
- Publication:
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Solid State Communications
- Pub Date:
- November 1975
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0038-1098(75)90689-4
- Bibcode:
- 1975SSCom..17.1291V