Physics – Atomic and Molecular Clusters
Scientific paper
2004-03-08
Physics
Atomic and Molecular Clusters
14 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables PRB vol 70, in press
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.70.045423
The low-energy structures of mixed Ar--Xe and Kr--Xe Lennard-Jones clusters are investigated using a newly developed parallel Monte Carlo minimization algorithm with specific exchange moves between particles or trajectories. Tests on the 13- and 19- atom clusters show a significant improvement over the conventional basin-hopping method, the average search length being reduced by more than one order of magnitude. The method is applied to the more difficult case of the 38-atom cluster, for which the homogeneous clusters have a truncated octahedral shape. It is found that alloys of dissimilar elements (Ar--Xe) favor polytetrahedral geometries over octahedra due to the reduced strain penalty. Conversely, octahedra are even more stable in Kr--Xe alloys than in Kr_38 or Xe_38, and they show a core-surface phase separation behavior. These trends are indeed also observed and further analysed on the 55-atom cluster. Finally, we correlate the relative stability of cubic structures in these clusters to the glassforming character of the bulk mixtures.
Calvo Fabian
Yurtsever Ersin
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