On Charged Mesoscopic Metallic Bubbles
Condensed Matter
2009-10-30 v1 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We investigate the existence of stable charged metallic bubbles using the shell correction method. We find that for a given mesoscopic system of n atoms of a given metal and q less n (positive) elementary charges, a metallic bubble turns out to have a lower total energy than a compact spherical cluster, whenever the charge number q is larger than acritical charge number q_c. For a magic number (n-q) of free electrons, the spherical metallic bubble may become stable against fission.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9711136,
title = {On Charged Mesoscopic Metallic Bubbles},
author = {Krzysztof Pomorski and Klaus Dietrich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9711136},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
14 pages in Latex and 5 figures in the eps format