Surface energy and curvature energy of electron-hole droplets
- 27 November 1973
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics
- Vol. 6 (23) , L433-L436
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3719/6/23/002
Abstract
It is shown that the surface energy and curvature energy of electron-hole droplets both have a positive sign, and that they depend strongly on the gradient terms in the density functional expansion.Keywords
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