Properties of real metallic surfaces: Effects of density functional semilocality and van der Waals nonlocality

Abhirup Patra, Jefferson E. Bates, Jianwei Sun +1

We have computed the surface energies, work functions, and interlayer surface relaxations of clean (111), (110), and (100) surfaces of Al, Cu, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, Pt, and Au. Many of t…