Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1997-09-30
Phys. Rev. B, 58 (1998) 4942
Physics
Condensed Matter
20 pages, 4 figures, important modifications of the presentation, to appear in Phys. Rev. B
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.58.4942
We study the thermally activated oscillations, or capillary waves, of a neutral metal cluster within the liquid drop model. These deformations correspond to a surface roughness which we characterize by a single parameter $\Delta$. We derive a simple analytic approximate expression determining $\Delta$ as a function of temperature and cluster size. We then estimate the induced effects on shell structure by means of a periodic orbit analysis and compare with recent data for shell energy of sodium clusters in the size range $50 < N < 250$. A small surface roughness $\Delta\simeq 0.6$ \AA~ is seen to give a reasonable account of the decrease of amplitude of the shell structure observed in experiment. Moreover -- contrary to usual Jahn-Teller type of deformations -- roughness correctly reproduces the shape of the shell energy in the domain of sizes considered in experiment.
Pavloff Nicolas
Schmit Charles
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