Fragmentation of silicon microclusters: A molecular-dynamics study.
Fragmentation of silicon microclusters: A molecular-dynamics study.
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10.1103/physrevb.35.6222
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发表时间:
1987-04
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Feuston;Kalia;Vashishta
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作者:
Feuston;Kalia;Vashishta
A detailed molecular-dynamics (MD) study has been performed to (i) enumerate ground-state and finite-temperature structures and (ii) investigate the nature of fragmentation for Si/sub N/ clusters (N = 2--14), using the Stillinger-Weber three-body interaction potential. We investigate all underlying mechanically stable structures visited by the system in the equilibrium state. Results indicate that the presence of magic numbers, unusually stable finite-temperature clusters Si/sub 4/, Si/sub 6/, and Si/sub 10/ as determined by the photofragmentation experiment of Bloomfield, Freeman, and Brown is dependent upon the topology and energetics of high-energy bound structures rather than upon the structure and ground-state energies at zero temperature.