Density-functional theory of surface melting

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Abstract
A microscopic theory of planar crystal surface melting is described and applied to rare gases with Lennard-Jones potential. Explicit results for the solid-vapor density profiles are presented that exhibit surface melting in the vicinity of the triple point. Our approach is based on density-functional techniques combined with a van der Waals approximation and a hard-sphere fluid as a reference system.