Abstract
Modeling and investigation of thermodynamic characteristics of spatially-finite metallic systems is an essential task of modern nanophysics. We show that the widely used DFT (density functional theory) is less efficient than the QST (quantum-statistical theory) approach.
Publisher
Lviv Polytechnic National University
Subject
Computational Theory and Mathematics,Computational Mathematics
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