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Geometric magic numbers of sodium clusters: Interpretation of the melting behaviourEva G. Noya, Jonathan P. K. Doye, David J. Wales and Andres AguadoEur. Phys. J. D 43, 57-60 (2007)AbstractPutative global minima of sodium clusters with up to 380 atoms have been located for two model interatomic potentials. Structures based upon the Mackay icosahedra predominate for both potentials, and the magic numbers for the Murrell-Mottram model show excellent agreement with the sizes at which maxima in the latent heat and entropy change at melting have been found in experiment.The full paper is available from European Physical Journal D and and arXiv.org. See also the entries for Gupta and Murrell-Mottram clusters in the Cambridge Cluster Database. |