Published January 22, 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

Structure and madelung energy of Coulomb clusters

  • 1. Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology and Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University, Tsushimanaka 3-1-1, Okayama 700-8530 (Japan)

Description

The ground state of the system of charged particles of one species confined by the three-dimensional, isotropic, and parabolic potential is investigated by molecular dynamics simulations. It is shown that, with the increase of the system size or the number of particles in the system N, the ground state changes from the shell-structured system to the finite bcc lattice with reconstructed surface. The critical value of the transition is estimated to be between N=104 and N=2x104. The nucleation of the bcc lattice in the shell-structured cluster of 2x104 ions is observed

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
606
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 181-190
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
4. workshop on non-neutral plasmas
Dates
30 Jul - 2 Aug 2001
Place
San Diego, CA (United States)

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
35081660
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
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Conference
Descriptors DEI
BCC LATTICES; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GROUND STATES; IONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS METHOD; NUCLEATION; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; POTENTIALS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS
Descriptors DEC
CALCULATION METHODS; CHARGED PARTICLES; CONFINEMENT; CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CUBIC LATTICES; ENERGY LEVELS; SIMULATION

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(c) 2002 American Institute of Physics.