Negative heat capacity for a cluster of 147 sodium atoms

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1191-1194

  Schmidt, Martin ^a   Kusche, Robert ^a   Hippler, Thomas ^a   Donges, Jörn ^a   Kronmüller, Werner ^a   Von Issendorff, Bernd ^a   Haberland, Hellmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVAPORATION; KINETIC ENERGY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MELTING; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; SODIUM; SPECIFIC HEAT OF SOLIDS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ENERGY DISTRIBUTION; MICROCANONICAL HEAT CAPACITY; NEGATIVE HEAT CAPACITY; PHOTOFRAGMENTATION;

ATOMS;

EID: 14344283425     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1191     Document Type: Article

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