1999/09/10 by Constantine Yannouleas, Uzi Landman, Yannouleas, Constantine +4
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Chemical Physics Studies #Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus) #Catalytic Processes in Materials Science #FOS: Physical sciences #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #cond-mat.mtrl-sci #nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions #nucl-th #physics.atm-clus
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/9909022
Latex/Revtex, 37 pages with 17 eps figures incorporated in the text. Contributed chapter to the book "Metal Clusters", Edited by W. Ekardt. For related papers, see http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~ph274cy
arxiv created 1999/09/10 · openalex publication_date 1999/09/10 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This pedagogical review presents the Shell Correction Method (SCM) and variants thereof, appropriate for describing shape deformations and electronic shell effects, energetics and decay pathways of metal-cluster fragmentation processes (e.g., monomer/dimer dissociation and fission). The experimental trends are compared to the theoretical SCM interpretations, and in addition theoretical results for fission from first-principles molecular-dynamics simulations are discussed. Some latest insights concerning the importance of electronic-entropy and finite-temperature effects are given special attention.