Evolutionary method for predicting surface reconstructions with variable stoichiometry
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Qiang Zhu,1,2,* Li Li,3 Artem R. Oganov,1,2,3,4 and Philip B. Allen3 1Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA 2Center for Materials by Design, Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University, New York 11794, USA 3Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA 4Department of Problems of Physics and Energetics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 9 Institutskiy Lane, Dolgoprudny city, Moscow Region, 141700, Russia (Received 24 January 2013; revised manuscript received 2 May 2013; published 28 May 2013)
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