Elsevier

Surface Science

Volumes 331–333, Part B, 1 July 1995, Pages 989-994
Surface Science

Surface structure, -reconstructions, and -phase transitions
Solid-fluid transition and interfaces with density functional approaches

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Abstract

A brief review of the recent advances in the density functional theories for strongly inhomogeneous systems is presented. Particular attention is paid to the structure of adsorbed films with strong layering structure and to the study of crystal phases as self-structured fluids. The development of non-local density functional for hard spheres is followed by perturbation theories to include the effects of soft attractive interactions. The latter require a good understanding of the correlation structure in inhomogeneous systems, which may be very different from that of homogeneous fluids at the same mean density.

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