Rigid-Fluid Transition in Specific-Size Argon Clusters
- 5 September 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 61 (10) , 1190-1193
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.61.1190
Abstract
Larger argon atomic clusters undergo a size-specific transition from rigid to fluid forms as the cluster temperature is varied. The observed nature of this phase change, detected by measurement of the spectral line shape of a benzene dopant molecule, favors the phase-coexistence model of the cluster melting transition.This publication has 25 references indexed in Scilit:
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