## LCAO-HMO Study of the Bond Energy of Small Crystals A number of papers (FURANO, WAYMAN : ALLPRESS, SANDERS: BURTON: ROMANOWSKI ; LEWIS) have appeared during the past years considering crystals which consist of a very small number of atoms. The stability of a formation of that kind is closely as
LCAO HMO study of the binding energy of small clusters of lithium atoms
β Scribed by Prof. Dr. G. M. Bliznakov; Sv. P. Delineshev; Dr. D. L. Lazarov
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1975
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 485 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0232-1300
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β¦ Synopsis
Abstract
The atom by atom growing of the energetically most favourable lithium clusters of 2 to 10 atoms was studied. The clusters had the structure of a body centered cubic lattice of lithium. The LCAOβHMO method was used for the energetic description of the clusters. It was assumed that there is an interaction of a given atom with its neighbours in the first six coordination spheres in the lithium lattice. All possible (twoβdimensional and threeβdimensional) positions of the n + 1^st^ atom with respect to a cluster of n atoms were taken into account. It was shown that from 2 to 10 atoms the cluster grows twodimensionally and has the geometry of the lattice plane with the highest net density in the body centered cubic lattice of lithium, the 110 lattice plane. This was discussed in detail. It was shown that the bond energy per atom increases, whereas the energy of a bond between nearest neighbours decreases with increasing number of atoms in the cluster.
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