SHAPES AND FREE ENERGIES OF MOLTEN SODIUM CLUSTERS

S. Frauendorf and V.V. Pashkevich
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S. Frauendorf: Institute for Nuclear and Hadronic Physics, Research Center Rossendorf Inc., PB 51 01 19, D-01314 Dresden, Germany
V.V. Pashkevich: Laboratory for Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980 Dubna, Russian Federation

Surface Review and Letters (SRL), 1996, vol. 03, issue 01, 241-245

Abstract: The shell-correction method is formulated to calculate the shapes and free energies of hot alkali clusters. The equilibrium shapes of Na clusters with mass 50–700 are calculated by minimizing simultaneously with respect to two deformation parameters. ForT=700°Kstrong deviations from spheroidal shape including reflection asymmetric shapes are found to survive in the center of the open shells. The second derivative of calculated free energy correlates with the derivative of the experimental cluster abundances, showing prominent spikes related to the change between spherical and deformed shape.

Date: 1996
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