Density‐Functional Theory of the Pressure Distribution at Metal Surfaces
- 1 April 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Physica Status Solidi (b)
- Vol. 110 (2) , 495-498
- https://doi.org/10.1002/pssb.2221100215
Abstract
Density‐functional theory is used to calculate the exact spatial distribution of the pressure at a planar jellium surface at various densities. A comparison with a local density approximation and with other descriptions of pressure in inhomogeneous systems is briefly discussed.Keywords
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