The mass distributions of ahnninum negative cluster ions and their binary cluster ions mixed with a carbon atom, generated by laser vaporization, were measured. In the range from n= 5 to 70, the mass distribution of pure aluminum negative cluster ions, Al;, exhibits one peak at n= 13 and one step be
Electron exchange between an H− ion and a spherical cluster of aluminum atoms
✍ Scribed by D.K. Shestakov; T.Yu. Polivnikova; I.K. Gainullin; I.F. Urazgildin
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 474 KB
- Volume
- 267
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0168-583X
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✦ Synopsis
The resonant charge transfer (RCT) between a hydrogen anion and a cluster of aluminum atoms is investigated by means of the wave-packet propagation method that does not exploit the perturbation theory. The RCT on a spherical cluster is found to exhibit quantum size effects due to the finite size of the cluster. The survival amplitude of an ion state has been calculated as a function of the distance to the ion-surface in a normal collision. It is shown that depending on the velocity of the impinging particle, the cluster can behave either as a bulk metal or as a quantum structure with discrete energy states existing over two coordinates.
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