A correlation study of small silver clusters

The formalisms of many body perturbation theory and coupled cluster theory have been used to study the electronic and geometric structures of neutral, cationic, and anionic small silver clusters. Hay-Wadt relativistic effective core potentials replacing the twenty-eight core electrons and a Gaussian basis set have been used. Topologically different clusters and clusters belonging to different symmetry groups have been identified and studied in detail. Full geometry optimizations have been carried out at four different correlated levels of theories. Ionization potentials, electron affinities, and fragmentation energies of the optimized clusters have been compared with other experimental and theoretical results available in the literature. No convergence problems are encountered at the various levels of correlated theories. This is noteworthy since it has been claimed in the literature that for d elements the MP series does not converge very well. Received 16 April 2002 / Received in final form 12 September 2002 Published online 21 January 2003 RID="a" ID="a"e-mail: akr@uta.edu     

Copper clusters: electronic effect dominates over geometric effect

A minimal parameter tight binding molecular dynamics scheme is used to study Cu _n clusters with . We present results for relaxed configurations of different symmetries, binding energies, relative stabilities and HOMO-LUMO gap energies for these clusters. Detailed comparison for small clusters n = 3-9 with ab initio and available experimental results shows very good agreement. Even-odd alternation due to electron pairing and magic behaviour for Cu₂, Cu₈, Cu₁₈ and Cu₂₀ due to electronic shell closing are found. We found electronic effects, electronic shell closing and electron pairing in the HOMO dominates over the geometrical effect to determine the relative stability of copper clusters. The present results indicate that tight-binding molecular dynamics scheme can be relied on to provide a useful semiempirical scheme in modeling interactions in metallic systems.Received: 3 May 2004, Published online: 26 October 2004PACS: 36.40.Cg Electronic and magnetic properties of clusters - 36.40.Mr Spectroscopy and geometrical structure of clusters - 36.40.Qv Stability and fragmentation of clusters     

Valence band formation in small silver clusters

UV photoemission spectra of valence electrons in small silver clusters have been compared with spectra from bulk silver samples using synchrotron radiation, 16 <hν< 27 eV. Spectra for single silver atoms supported on carbon are indicative of a completely filled 4d¹⁰ initial state configuration. With increased cluster size, both density of states and valence band modulations with respect to photon energy resemble the bulk metal more closely. Spectral modulation, characteristic of conservation of crystal momentum, appears to require a cluster consisting of ～150 atoms.     

Tight-binding study of structural and electronic properties of silver clusters

Tight-binding model is developed to study the structural and electronic properties of silver clusters. The ground state structures of Ag clusters up to 21 atoms are optimized by molecular dynamics-based genetic algorithm. The results on small Ag_n clusters (n = 3-9) are comparable to ab initio calculations. The size dependence of electronic properties such as density of states, s-d band separation, HOMO-LUMO gap, and ionization potentials are discussed. Magic number behavior at Ag₂, Ag₈, Ag₁₄, Ag₁₈, Ag₂₀ is obtained, in agreement with the prediction of electronic ellipsoid shell model. We suggest that both the electronic and geometrical effect play significant role in the coinage metal clusters. Received 7 August 2000     

Influence of electronic and geometric properties on melting of sodium clusters

Systematics of the melting transition for sodium clusters with 40-355 atoms has been studied with both ab initio and semiclassical molecular dynamics simulations. The melting temperatures obtained with an ab initio method for Na₅₅ ⁺ and Na₉₃ ⁺ correlate well with the experimental results. The semiclassically determined melting temperatures show similarities with the experimentally determined ones in the size region from 55 to 93 and near size 142, and the latent heat in the size region from 55 to 139, but not elsewhere in the size region studied. This indicates that the nonmonotonical melting behavior observed experimentally cannot be fully explained by geometrical effects. The semiclassically determined melting temperature and the latent heat correlate quite well, indicating that they respond similarly to changes in cluster geometry and size. Similarly, the binding energy per atom seems to correlate with the melting temperature and the latent heat of fusion.Received: 30 October 2003, Published online: 20 January 2004PACS: 36.40.Ei Phase transitions in clusters     

SiC多型体几何结构与电子结构研究

采用平面波超软赝势法和范数不变赝势法对几种SiC多型体的几何结构、能带结构等进行了系统的研究.结果表明:6HSiC导带最低点在ML线上U点,用平面波超软赝势法计算时U点在(0000,0500,0176)点附近;而用范数不变赝势法计算时在导带最低点附近能带呈现不连续点,不连续点出现在(0000,0500,0178)点附近.两种赝势法计算结果相比,用平面波超软赝势法得到的导带最低点位置更靠近布里渊区M(0,05,0)点.在平面波超软赝势下,随着六角度的增加,cp,cpa增大的趋势较为明显,能隙和价带宽度变宽的趋势也较为明显.在计算极限内,绝对零度下4HSiC系统能量最低、最稳定,而Ewald能量显示3CSiC最稳定. 关键词： 密度泛函理论 电子结构 SiC     

Optical properties of small silver clusters supported at MgO

We present structural and optical properties of silver clusters Ag_n (n=2, 4, 6, 8) at two model support sites of MgO, stoichiometric MgO(100) and F_S-center defect, based on density functional theory and embedded cluster model. Our results provide the mechanism responsible for the absorption and emission patterns due to the specific interaction between the excitations within the cluster and the support site which is strongly cluster size and structure dependent. We propose Ag₄ at stoichiometric site as well as Ag₂, Ag₄ and Ag₆ at F_S-center defects as good candidates for the emissive centers in the visible regime.     

First-principles study of structures and electronic properties of cadmium sulfide clusters

The lowest-energy structures and the electronic properties of CdnSn （n = 1 - 8） clusters have been studied by using denslty-functional theory simulating package DMol^3 in the generalized gradient approximation （GGA）. The ring-like structures are the lowest-energy configurations for n = 2, 3 and the three-dimensional spheroid configurations for n = 4 - 8. The three-dimensional structures may be considered as being built from the Cd2S2 and Cd3S3 rings. Compared to the previous reports, we have found the more stable structures for CdnSn（n = 7, 8）. Calculations show that the magic numbers of CdnSn （n = 1-8） clusters are n = 3 and 6. As cluster size increases, the properties of CdnSn clusters tend to bulk-like ones in binding energy per CdS unit and Mulliken atomic charge, obtained by comparing with the calculated results of the wurtzite and zinc blende CdS for the same simulating parameters.     

PSP—SA模拟金团簇的几何结构与基态能量

采用基于模拟退火的粒子群智能算法(PSO-SA)和紧束缚二阶动量矩势函数(TB-SMA)对金团簇Aun(n≤10)的基态能量、结构及其随团簇尺寸变化的规律进行了研究.结果表明n为偶数的金团簇的结构比邻近为奇数的金团簇稳定,具有"奇-偶"振荡效应;由金团簇基态能量的二阶差分可以看出Au4、Au6、Au8结构比较稳定,具有"幻数"效应.     

金团簇结构和电子性质的密度泛函研究

采用密度泛函理论,研究了Aun(2≤n≤10)团簇的最优结构和电子性质.采用各种不同的拓扑结构进行优化,计算结果显示最优结构都是二维的;在得到的最优结构基础上,进一步研究了其电子性质.结合能的二阶差分,费米能和能隙都显示了奇偶谐振效应.具有偶数个原子的金团簇要比奇数个原子的金团簇稳定,这与金团簇中的电子配对紧密相关.     

Pd-Y微团簇的结构与性质研究

在相对论有效原子实势近似下，用密度泛函理论方法，对Pd_n(n=2,3,4)，Y_n（n=2,3,4）,Pd_nY(n=1,2,3,4)，PdY_n(n=2,3,4)，Pd₂ Y_n(n=2,3,4)团簇的各种可能的几何构型进行全优化计算,得到它们的基态结构和 光谱性质.结果表明，由于 Jahn-Teller效应， Pd₄和Y₄的基态结 构为C_s构型，P d₃和Y₃为C_2v 构型；混合微团簇Pd₃Y，Pd ₄Y，PdY₃，PdY₄ 和 Pd₂Y₄基态为C_s构型.最后计算了团簇的能级分布和最 高占据轨道与最低空轨道之间的能级间隙,分析了团簇的化学活性. 关键词： Pd-Y团簇 有效原子实势 密度泛函     

Magnetic properties of stable structures of small binary clusters

We have studied the optimum geometries and the magnetic behavior of small binary Fe_nGe_m (n+m≤4) clusters usingab initio spin-polarized density functional calculations. Our results reveal that the optimized clusters present high values in the HOMO–LUMO gap and generally prefer structures with high geometries, the local magnetic moments at Fe atoms present an enhancement with respect to Fe bulk magnetization, whereas the Ge atoms present local magnetic moments whose modulus take significative values. The magnetic coupling between Fe and Ge atoms is mainly antiferromagnetic-like. All the clusters studied here present a charge transference from Fe atoms to Ge atoms.     

Na3B3Hn团簇的结构与电子特性

使用密度泛函理论(DFT)的杂化密度泛函B3LYP方法在6-311+g(d)基组水平上对Na3B3Hn团簇各种可能的构型进行几何优化,预测了各团簇的最稳定结构:并对最稳定结构的平均结合能(Eb),二阶能量差分(Δ2E)和能隙(Eg)等进行了理论研究.结果表明:随着氢原子数的增加,Na3B3Hn团簇的结构由平面转变为复杂的三维立体结构;Na3B3Hn团簇的平均结合能、二阶差分能和能隙等均表现出明显的“奇-偶”振荡和“幻数”效应;Na3B3H8,Na3B3H12,Na3B3H18和Na3B3H20团簇稳定性大于Na3B3Hn中的其他团簇,为Na3B3Hn团簇中最稳定的几种团簇.