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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 97, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.026802
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The behavior of the surface barrier that forms at the metal-vacuum interface is important for several fields of surface science. Within the density functional theory framework, this surface barrier has two nontrivial components: exchange and correlation. Exact results are provided for the exchange component, for a jellium metal-vacuum interface, in a slab geometry. The Kohn-Sham exact-exchange potential V-x(z) has been generated by using the optimized effective potential method, through an accurate numerical solution, imposing the correct boundary condition. It has been proved analytically, and confirmed numerically, that V-x(z ->infinity)->-e(2)/z; this conclusion is not affected by the inclusion of correlation effects. Also, the exact-exchange potential develops a shoulderlike structure close to the interface, on the vacuum side. The issue of the classical image potential is discussed.
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