Multiply charged metal cluster anions
Materials Science
2009-01-23 v1 Nuclear Theory
Atomic and Molecular Clusters
Abstract
Formation, stability patterns, and decay channels of silver dianionic and gold trianionic clusters are investigated with Penning-trap experiments and a shell-correction method including shape deformations. The theoretical predictions pertaining to the appearance sizes and electronic shell effects are in remarkable agreement with the experiments. Decay of the multiply anionic clusters occurs predominantly by electron tunneling through a Coulomb barrier, rather than via fission, leading to appearance sizes unrelated to those of multiply cationic clusters.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0012202,
title = {Multiply charged metal cluster anions},
author = {Constantine Yannouleas and Uzi Landman and Alexander Herlert and Lutz Schweikhard},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0012202},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Latex/Revtex, 4 pages with 4 eps figures integrated in the text. For related papers, see http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~ph274cy