Surface and bulk melting of small metal clusters

Details Surface and bulk melting of small metal clusters Surface and bulk melting of small metal clusters

2006-12-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0612428v1

Phil. Mag. 85 3617 (2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

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We present an analytical solution to the two-parabola Landau model, applied to melting of metal particles with sizes in the nanoscale range. The results provide an analytical understanding of the recently observed pseudo-crystalline phase of nanoscale Sn particles. Liquid skin formation as a precursor of melting is found to occur only for particles with radii, greater than an explicitly given critical radius. The size effect of the melting temperature and the latent heat has been calculated and quantitative agreement with experiments on Sn particles was found.

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