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- W140041450 abstract "Density functional theory (DFT) is the work–horse of modern materials modeling techniques, but scatteredevidence indicates it often fails for important surface properties. This thesis investigates how DFTestimates of the surface energy (σ) and molecular adsorption energies of ionic systems are affected bythe choice of exchange–correlation (xc) functional. Accurate diffusion Monte–Carlo (DMC) and quantumchemistry (QC) calculations are presented for these quantities showing marked improvement overDFT and agreement of much better than chemical accuracy.DFT estimates of σ are presented for the (001) surfaces of LiH, LiF, NaF and MgO. Five xc functionals,LDA, PBE, RPBE, Wu–Cohen and PW91 are used. A clear xc functional bias is demonstratedwith σLDA > σWC > σPBE > σPW91 > σRPBE.To improve the picture detailed pseudopotential DMC calculations are presented for LiH and LiF.The lattice parameters and cohesive energies agree with experiment to better than 0.2 % and 30 meVrespectively. For LiH novel all–electron DMC calculations are also presented showing significant improvementover pseudopotential DMC.Accurate all–electron Hartree–Fock calculations of σ for LiH(001) and LiF(001) are presentedalong with calculations of the LiF bulk using specially adapted Gaussian basis–sets. Combined withexisting QC correlation estimates the bulk and surface properties of LiH and LiF show excellent agreementto both experiment and DMC and allow a longstanding disagreement between two experimentalestimates for σLiF to be resolved.Finally the adsorption energy curve for water on LiH(001) is obtained by both DMC and incrementalQC techniques leading to agreement of better than 10 meV. DFT and dispersion corrected DFTestimates are also presented highlighting the large xc functional dependence.Thus we demonstrate that is possible and necessary to obtain agreement between higher levels oftheory and produce benchmark values beyond DFT." @default.
- W140041450 created "2016-06-24" @default.
- W140041450 creator A5087402305 @default.
- W140041450 date "2011-06-28" @default.
- W140041450 modified "2023-09-23" @default.
- W140041450 title "Ab initio surface energetics: beyond chemical accuracy" @default.
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