Jahn-Teller stabilization of a "Polar" metal oxide surface: Fe3O4(001)

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2005, Pages

  Pentcheva, R ^a,d   Wendler, F ^a   Meyerheim, H L ^a   Moritz, W ^a   Jedrecy, N ^b   Scheffler, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO THERMODYNAMICS; CURIE TEMPERATURE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY (DFT); GENERALIZED GRADIENT APPROXIMATIONS (GGA); JAHN-TELLER STABILIZATION; METAL-METAL TRANSITIONS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTROSTATICS; IRON COMPOUNDS; LOW ENERGY ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; STABILIZATION; SURFACE PHENOMENA; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 18244392692     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.126101     Document Type: Article

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