AB-INITIO CALCULATION OF THE PROPERTIES OF THE GD(0001) SURFACE

被引:27
作者
BYLANDER, DM
KLEINMAN, L
机构
[1] Department of Physics, University of Texas, Austin
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1994年 / 50卷 / 07期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.50.4996
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T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
A previous ab initio calculation of the Gd(0001) surface found that the surface plane relaxed outward by 6.3% and is antiferromagnetically oriented with respect to the bulk magnetization. Experiment shows it relaxes inward by 3.5% and is either ferromagnetic or canted with in-plane component ferromagnetic with respect to the bulk. After correcting errors inherent in the local-spin-density approximation for exchange and correlation we find that the surface is ferromagnetically oriented and that it relaxes inward by 3.38%.
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