Magnetism in clusters of 4d transition metals

The magnetic properties of ruthenium (RuN), rhodium (RhN) and palladium (PdN) clusters are determined as function of the cluster size N (N=4, 6, 13 and 19). For N=4 and 6 we take the tetrahedral and pentagonal pyramid geometric structures respectively. For N=13 and 19 we consider fcc-like structures. We use a tight binding Hamiltonian for s, p and d electrons in the unrestricted Hartree-Fock approximation. For the considered cluster, we obtain magnetic moments non-vanishing local, with the exception of Rh4. RuN and RhN present a maximum in the average magnetic moment when the size of the cluster is N=13 and in all the elements we found that the average magnetic moment decreases strongly at N=19. As expected, the local magnetic moments at the atoms of the surface of the cluster are larger than those at inner atoms, except for Ru19. We find strong oscillations of the magnetic moment as function of N an are less important in the PdN clusters. (Author)