<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi, I would say that you should divide by two, because you have two interfaces per unit cell.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm just wondering what would happen for an "isolated" interface. In other words, what you are considering is actually a</div><div>"superlattice" in that the A-B sequence is periodically repeated. Consecutive replicas are separated by only 2-3 A distance.</div><div>How different would be the interface</div><div>energy you compute after adding a, let's say, 10 Ang vacuum (in this case the interface energy should be computed without dividing by 2).</div><div>In other words, I would compare the interface energy as computed from the A-B-A-B-A-B-..... superlattice [dividing by 2 as you said] with that computed</div><div>from the A-B-10 Ang-A-B-10Ang-.....structure (10Ang = vacuum) [without dividing by 2].</div><div><br></div><div>Giovanni</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">-- <br><br>Prof. Giovanni Cantele<br>Dipartimento di Fisica "Ettore Pancini"<br>Universita' degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II"<br>Complesso Universitario M. S. Angelo - Ed. 6<br>Via Cintia, I-80126, Napoli, Italy<br>e-mail: giovanni.cantele@unina<br>Phone: +39 081 676910<br><br>Web page: </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/giovanni-cantele/home" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/view/giovanni-cantele/home</a><br></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il giorno mar 21 ott 2025 alle ore 14:07 michele de angelis <<a href="mailto:michele.deangelis.01@alumni.uniroma2.eu" target="_blank">michele.deangelis.01@alumni.uniroma2.eu</a>> ha scritto:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
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Dear all,</div>
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I built a periodic supercell (no vacuum along z) with ASE, containing YBCO and STO slabs with identical terminations (and identical vaccum) on top and bottom (symmetric slabs) along (001) direction. Furthermore, the lattice parameter of the substrate (for the
lattice mismatch) was imposed on the interface area. After relaxing the structure, I perform an scf calculation to determine the energy of the interface (all details on the calculation are in the attached file). I compute energies E_A (slab A, symmetric),
E_B (slab B, symmetric), and E_AB (full supercell ). Now, I want to determine the adhesion work for this interface (with these terminations). If you look at the structure of the supercell, in the attached input file that dispatches the interface, you only
see one interface. The cell therefore contains two equivalent interfaces (A|B and B|A) by PBC. </div>
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My question: </div>
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to report the adhesion work per unit area for a *single* interface, should I use:</div>
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W = (E_A + E_B - E_AB) / (2*A)</div>
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(i.e. divide by 2 because there are two equivalent interfaces in the cell)? or not?<br>
Thank you in advance for your support.</div>
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Best regards, </div>
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