The role of electronic correlation in the Si(100) reconstruction: a quantum Monte Carlo study

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2001-02-26

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0102463v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

5 pages, Revtex, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.016105

Recent low-temperature scanning tunneling experiments have challenged the generally accepted picture of buckled silicon dimers as the ground state reconstruction of the Si(100) surface. Together with the symmetric dimer model of the surface suggested by quantum chemistry calculations on small clusters, these findings question our general understanding of electronic correlations at surfaces and its proper description within density functional theory. We present quantum Monte Carlo calculations on large cluster models of the symmetric and buckled surface, and conclude that buckling remains energetically more favorable even when the present-day best treatment of electronic correlation is employed.

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