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Ab Initio Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of Diffusion, Growth, and Self- Assembly of Quantum Dots

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Atomistic Aspects of Epitaxial Growth

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Recent developments in methodology enable us to extend the density-functional theory approach, that primarily focuses on the self-consistent electronic structure, to poly-atomic complexes with 10,000 and more atoms, atomic motion over time scales of seconds, and involved statistics. In this contribution we will sketch recent density-functional theory-based hybrid methods, which bridge the length and time scales from those of electron orbitals to meso- and macroscopic proportions, and present some results for crystal growth and the self-assembly of nano-scale structures.

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  1. Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Faradayweg 4-6, D-14195, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany

    Matthias Scheffler & Peter Kratzer

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  1. Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

    Miroslav Kotrla

  2. Physics Department, Solid State Division, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

    Nicolas I. Papanicolaou

  3. The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London, UK

    Dimitri D. Vvedensky

  4. Department of Physics, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

    Luc T. Wille

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Scheffler, M., Kratzer, P. (2002). Ab Initio Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of Diffusion, Growth, and Self- Assembly of Quantum Dots. In: Kotrla, M., Papanicolaou, N.I., Vvedensky, D.D., Wille, L.T. (eds) Atomistic Aspects of Epitaxial Growth. NATO Science Series, vol 65. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0391-9_27

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