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The dynamical response of metallic clusters up to $10^3$ atoms is investigated using the restricted molecular dynamics simulations scheme. Exemplarily, sodium like material is considered. Correlation functions are evaluated to investigate…
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We present linear response theories in the continuum capable of describing photoionization spectra and dynamic polarizabilities of finite systems with no spatial symmetry. Our formulations are based on the time-dependent local density…
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An algebraic method especially suited to describe strongly anharmonic vibrational spectra in molecules may be an appropriate framework to study vibrational spectra of Na$^+_n$ clusters, where nearly flat potential energy surfaces and the…
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The Bethe-Salpeter equation for the electron-hole correlation function is the state-of-the-art formalism for optical and core spectroscopy in condensed matter. Solutions of this equation yield the full dielectric response, including both…
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The infrared range optical absorption mechanism of Carbon-Copper composite thin layer coated on the Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) buffer layer has been investigated. By consideration of weak interactions between copper nanoparticles in their…
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We argue that the experimentally easily accessible optical absorption spectrum can often be used to distinguish between a random alloy phase and a stoichiometrically equivalent core/shell realization of ensembles of monodisperse colloidal…
We have carried out extensive density functional calculations for series of sodium clusters $Na$$_{N}$ ranging from $N$=10 to 147 and have obtained $\approx$ 13000 distinct isomers. We unravel a number of striking features of the growth…