What is the unit of force in SiC structural optimization?

[Richie9384]

I'm reading a paper on a simulation of graphene and carbon nanotube growth on SiC, in the paper they give a few computational details about the structural optimization of the SiC model using a conjugate gradient method and they state the maximal force component as
1x10^{-4}Ha/a_o

What is this unit? I'm assuming Ha per angstrom...but Ha seem to be a unit of area...I need to convert to eV/Angstrom

 

[e.bar.goum]

I would have guessed that
Ha = Hartree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartree
$a_0$ = Bohr radius.

And that gives you energy per unit length, which is what you need.

(ETA: If it were lowercase "ha" would be "hectare" -- if that's what you were thinking. Angstrom is written like Å not $a_0$)

 

[pbuk]

When I bought carpet for my house it came on a roll that covered 5 x 10^-14 hectares per Ångstrom