Describing metal surfaces and nanostructures with orbital-free density functional theory

Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science

Volumn 11, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 57-61

  Ho, Gregory S ^a   Huang, Chen ^a   Carter, Emily A ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Kinetic energy density functionals; Local pseudopotentials; Main group metals; Orbital free density functional theory

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC WIRE; METALS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUANTUM THEORY; SPEED; STRUCTURAL METALS;

EXTENDED SURFACES; KINETIC ENERGY DENSITY FUNCTIONALS; LOCAL PSEUDOPOTENTIALS; MAIN GROUP METALS; METAL SURFACES; ORBITAL-FREE DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; PROPERTY PREDICTIONS; PSEUDO-POTENTIALS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SAMPLE SIZES; SIMPLE METALS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 50349090160     PISSN: 13590286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cossms.2008.06.005     Document Type: Article

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