THE DELOCALIZATION OF SF6 IN HELIUM CLUSTERS Academic Article

abstract

• Variational calculations of the ground state structure and the excitation spectrum of 4He clusters doped with an SF6 molecule show that, for clusters size larger than approximately 100 atoms, a spherically symmetric configuration with the impurity molecule at the center of the cluster is unstable. The instability is indicated by the 'softening' of the droplet's collective dipole excitation. This instability strongly suggests that the SF6 molecule is delocalized inside larger helium droplets and may be found near a non-isotropic environment such as the surface. 1994.

authors

• Chin, Siu

published proceedings

• CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS

author list (cited authors)

• KROTSCHECK, E., & CHIN, S. A.

citation count

• 17

complete list of authors

• KROTSCHECK, E||CHIN, SA

publication date

• September 1994

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/0009-2614(94)00807-8

start page

• 143

end page

• 148

volume

• 227

issue

• 1-2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0009-2614(94)00807-8