<div>Dear Prof. and Wien user:                                                                    <br>                                                                                             <br>I want to test the surface energy's covergence; according to the suggestions                 
<br>at this list,I do the following calculations:                                                <br>                                                                                             <br>slab with : 7 \ 9 \ 11 atom layers                                                           
<br>           each  model  in  15 \ 20 \ 25 bohr vacuum thickness                               <br>                                                                                             <br>the result list here:                                                                        
<br>                                                                                             <br>E_slab                                                                                       <br>vacuum    7(layers)       9(layers)      11(layers)                                          
<br>15 -48168.15027 -61930.51462 -75692.87704                                      <br>20 -48168.14974 -61930.51284 -75692.87596                                      <br>25 -48168.14885 -61930.51269 -75692.87490                               
<br>                                                                                             <br>                                                                                             <br>                                                                                             
<br>surface energy (E_slab - n* E_bulk)                                                          <br>            7          9            11                                                       <br>15        0.21361    0.23894
     0.26620                                                     <br>20        0.21414    0.24072     0.26728                                                     <br>25        0.21503    0.24087     0.26834                                                     
<br>                                                                                             <br>RKM = 6                                                                                      <br>k-points                                                                                     
<br>           8(7*7*1)                                                                          <br>my questions are:                                                                            <br>  1) why the energy increases when the vacuum thickness increases?                           
<br>  2) then  why the surface energy insreases when the atom layers increases?                  <br>  3) then how to judge the  vacuum thickness is enough,                                      <br>     and the atom layers is enough?                                                          
<br>                                                                                             <br>Can somebody give me some advices? Thanks very much!                                         <br>                                                                                             
<br>also I check the :VZERO, but it is too different from bulk system, tomorrow I will give the  <br>:VZERO numerical value                                                                       <br>                                                                                             
<br>the attachments are  struct files !                                                          <br> </div>
<div>Best!</div>
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<br>Guan Pengfei,  Ph. D<br>Inst.f. Physics, Tsinghua U, Beijing, China<br>Phone: +86-010-6218-2756        Mobile: +86-138-1060-9671<br>Email: <a href="mailto:miracle.fei@gmail.com">miracle.fei@gmail.com</a> <br>WWW: <a href="http://www.phys.tsinghua.edu.cn">
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