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First-principles calculations of metal surfaces. I. Slab-consistent bulk reference for convergent surface properties

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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
卷 103, 期 19, 页码 -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.103.195426

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  1. US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration [DE-NA0003525]
  2. Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) project

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This study presents a method for accurately calculating the surfaces of metals through slab calculations, utilizing an independently computed bulk reference to ensure convergent surface formation energies. The method also provides realistic uncertainties to understand the nonlinear divergence in surface formation energy with slab thickness. The accuracy of the method is demonstrated on relaxed, unreconstructed low-index aluminum surfaces with slabs up to 35 layers.
The first-principles computation of the surfaces of metals is typically accomplished through slab calculations of finite thickness. The extraction of a convergent surface formation energy from slab calculations is dependent upon defining an appropriate bulk reference energy. I describe a method for an independently computed, slab-consistent bulk reference that leads to convergent surface formation energies from slab calculations that also provides realistic uncertainties for the magnitude of unavoidable nonlinear divergence in the surface formation energy with slab thickness. The accuracy is demonstrated on relaxed, unreconstructed low-index aluminum surfaces with slabs with up to 35 layers.

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