Melting of sodium clusters: Where do the magic numbers come from?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Haberland, Hellmut ^a   Hippler, Thomas ^a   Donges, Jörn ^a   Kostko, Oleg ^a   Schmidt, Martin ^b   Von Issendorff, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b LABORATOIRE AIMÉ COTTON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANONICAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTION; FREE ELECTRON MODELS; GEOMETRIC STRUCTURES; MAGIC NUMBERS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; ENTROPY; FREE ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; THERMODYNAMICS;

MELTING;

EID: 18044377008     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.035701     Document Type: Article

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