Structural, electronic, and vibrational properties of neutral and charged [Formula Presented] clusters

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 4630-4636

  Grönbeck, Henrik ^a,b   Rosén, Arne ^a   Andreoni, Wanda ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; GROUND STATE; IONIZATION; ISOMERS; ISOTOPES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS;

DECAMER; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; IONIZATION POTENTIAL; LOCAL SPIN DENSITY APPROXIMATION; NIOBIUM CLUSTERS; OCTAMER; VERTICAL DETACHMENT ENERGY;

NIOBIUM;

EID: 0032375355     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.58.4630     Document Type: Article

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