Electron correlation in the Si(100) surface

Details Electron correlation in the Si(100) surface Electron correlation in the Si(100) surface

2001-05-14

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0105260v1

Surf. Sci. 482-485, 458-463 (2001)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

5 pages, 1 eps figure, 1 table; RevTeX v3.1. To appear in Surface Science (proceedings of the European Conference On Surface S

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0039-6028(00)01022-0

Motivated by the controversy between quantum chemists and solid-state physicists, and by recent experimental results, spin-polarized density-functional (DFT) calculations are used to probe electron correlation in the Si(100) reconstructed surface. The ground state displays antiferromagnetic spin polarization for low dimer inclinations indicating, not magnetic order, but the importance of Mott-like correlations among dangling bonds. The lowest energy corresponds to a higher dimer inclination with no spin. DFT energies, however, should be taken with caution here. Our results together with quantum-chemical findings suggest dimers with highly correlated electrons that tend to buckle due to interactions with other dimers.

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