Packing Transition in Nanosized Lithium Clusters


  • Collaboration
    • Ming Wen Sung
    • John Weare, Uuniversity of California, San Diego
  • Computer Resources
    • Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulation Program
    • Cray C90 at Navo
  • Publication
    • M.-W. Sung, R. Kawai, and J. Weare
      "Packing Transitions in Nanosized Li Clusters"
      Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, (1994) 3552
    • R. Kawai, J. Tommbrello, and J. H. Weare
      "Li5 as a pseudorotating planar cluster"
      Phys. Rev. A 49, (1994) 4236
    • R. Kawai, M.-W. Sung, and J. H. Weare
      "Structural Transition from Small Clusters to Bulk-like Structures. - Ab initio Molecular Dynamics Study of Li, Be, and B clusters -"
      in Physics and Chemistry of Finite Systems: From Clusters to Crystals, ed. by R. Jena et al. (Kluwer Academic, 1992) p. 441:

Structures of Selected Li clusters
Li8 Li9 Li14 Li20
Li30 Li40 Li45 Li55


This work was partly supported by ONR and AFOSR