Nonlocal Screening in Metal Surfaces
- 18 August 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 57 (7), 862-865
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.57.862
Abstract
We show that the effect of the nonuniform environment on the static screening of the Coulomb potential causes a major change in the calculated surface energy of simple metals.Keywords
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