Magic Melters' Have Geometrical Origin

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2005-12-30

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0512724v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

4 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.135703

Recent experimental reports bring out extreme size sensitivity in the heat capacities of Gallium and Aluminum clusters. In the present work we report results of our extensive {\it ab initio} molecular dynamical simulations on Ga$_{30}$ and Ga$_{31}$, the pair which has shown rather dramatic size sensitivity. We trace the origin of this size sensitive heat capacities to the relative order in their respective ground state geometries. Such an effect of nature of the ground state on the characteristics of heat capacities is also seen in case of small Gallium and Sodium clusters indicating that the observed size sensitivity is a generic feature of small clusters.

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