Physics – Atomic and Molecular Clusters
Scientific paper
2009-04-30
Physics
Atomic and Molecular Clusters
10 pages, 3 figures
Scientific paper
Angular resolved photoelectron spectra of metal clusters have been experimentally measured for the first time only recently. These measurements have been performed systematically for sodium clusters in a broad range of cluster sizes. This work attracted a lot of attention and was reported practically at all major international cluster conferences because it revealed a very non-trivial behavior of the angular anisotropy parameter with respect to photon energy and provided a method for probing the angular momentum character of the valence orbitals of free nanoclusters. Initial attempts to explain these observations within single particle approximations fail completely. In this Letter we present a consistent many-body theory for the description of angular resolved photoelectron spectra of metal clusters. Jellium model formalism is employed. Our calculations demonstrate the dominant role of the many-body effects in the formation of angular distributions of photoelectrons emitted from sodium clusters and are in a good agreement with experimental data reported in. The concrete comparison of theory and experiment has been performed for the photoionization of $Na_7^{-}$ and $Na_{19}^{-}$ anions being characterized by the entirely closed shells of delocalized electrons.
Ivanov Vadim K.
Polozkov Roman G.
Solov'yov Andrey V.
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