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

Gregory S. Ho; Chen Huang; Emily A. Carter

doi:10.1016/j.cossms.2008.06.005

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

Gregory S. Ho, Chen Huang, Emily A. Carter

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Abstract

Orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) can be made to scale linearly with sample size, allowing thousands of atoms to be treated explicitly with quantum mechanics. State-of-the-art kinetic energy density functionals and ion-electron pseudopotentials are used to obtain accurate structural property predictions for nanoparticles, nanowires, extended surfaces, and nanoindentation of simple metals.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	57-61
Number of pages	5
Journal	Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science
Volume	11
Issue number	5-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cossms.2008.06.005
State	Published - Oct 2007

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General Materials Science

Keywords

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

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