High-Level Correlated Approach to the Jellium Surface Energy, Without Uniform-Electron-Gas Input

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2007-10-30

arxiv.org/abs/0710.5564v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

4 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.036401

We resolve the long-standing controversy over the surface energy of simple metals: Density functional methods that require uniform-electron-gas input agree with each other at many levels of sophistication, but not with high-level correlated calculations like Fermi Hypernetted Chain and Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) that predict the uniform-gas correlation energy. Here we apply a very high-level correlated approach, the inhomogeneous Singwi-Tosi-Land-Sj\"olander (ISTLS) method, and find that the density functionals are indeed reliable (because the surface energy is "bulk-like"). ISTLS values are close to recently-revised DMC values. Our work also vindicates the previously-disputed use of uniform-gas-based nonlocal kernels in time-dependent density functional theory.

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