Using a computer simulation technique with a semiempirical potential, a Si crystal was cleaved along the (111) plane. The π-bonded chain structural features of the Si(111) cleavage surface are observed and found to be a consequence of the dynamics of this cleavage process and seem not to be influenced by the final energetics.
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Pearson et al. (1987) studied this question.