Abstract
The popular local-density approximation neglects long-range correlations which, in the presence of the rapid rate of change of the electron density at the surface, lead to observable effects. We evaluate the exchange-correlation potential for the electron gas-vacuum interface from the knowledge of the electron self-energy in the GW approximation. The electron-electron correlations built into automatically produce an imagelike surface barrier. Our result for is the basis of a nonlocal density-functional calculation of the electronic structure of Al(100) which yields a Rydberg series of image states from first principles.
- Received 1 October 1991
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.1359
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