Premelting and postmelting in clusters

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Hock, Christian ^a   Bartels, Christof ^a   Straßburg, Samuel ^a   Schmidt, Martin ^b   Haberland, Hellmut ^a   Von Issendorff, Bernd ^a   Aguado, Andrés ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b LABORATOIRE AIMÉ COTTON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; ATOMS; MELTING POINT; SODIUM;

CLOSED SHELLS; FINE STRUCTURES; HEAT CAPACITIES; LIQUID TRANSITIONS; MELTING TEMPERATURES; PREMELTING; SODIUM CLUSTERS; SURFACE MELTING; SURFACE VACANCIES; TWO LAYERS;

SURFACE DIFFUSION;

EID: 60449102075     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.043401     Document Type: Article

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