Table 1.

Surface energies γ for selected magnesium surfaces calculated with Equation (1) and from literature. For the BEEF‐vdW functional, the calculated standard deviations of the surface energies are given in parenthesis.

Surface	$\gamma$ [meV Å−2]
	this work		other work
	PBE	BEEF‐vdW	experiment [38]
Mg(0001)	33.9	38.7 (9)	51.0
Mg(10$\stackrel{-}{1}$ 0)A	40.3	44.9 (9)
Mg(10$\stackrel{-}{1}$ 1)	40.9	45.8 (8)
Mg(10$\stackrel{-}{1}$ 0)B	55.5	59.4 (11)