Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
1998-03-25
Phys.Rev. B 58, 2329 (1998)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
15 pages RevTex, 11 eps figures, additional information at http://www.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de/docs/ANDERSEN/users/koch/Diss/
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.58.2329
The formation of supershells observed in large metal clusters can be qualitatively understood from a periodic-orbit-expansion for a spherical cavity. To describe the changes in the supershell structure for different materials, one has, however, to go beyond that simple model. We show how periodic-orbit-expansions for realistic cluster potentials can be derived by expanding only the classical radial action around the limiting case of a spherical potential well. We give analytical results for the leptodermous expansion of Woods-Saxon potentials and show that it describes the shift of the supershells as the surface of a cluster potential gets softer. As a byproduct of our work, we find that the electronic shell and supershell structure is not affected by a lattice contraction, which might be present in small clusters.
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