https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2003-00141-6
Probing the liquid-gas like phase transition in the mixed ArxNe13-x clusters?
1
University of Western Ontario, London N6A 5B7, Ontario, Canada
2
Laboratoire de Photophysique moléculaire, CNRS, bâtiment 210, Université de Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
Corresponding author: a pascal.parneix@ppm.u-psud.fr
Received:
10
September
2002
Published online:
3
July
2003
The solid-liquid and the liquid-gas like phase transitions have been identified in the case of “caged" mixed atomic ArxNe13-x clusters with
. An artificial repulsive
potential of spherical symmetry prevents the loss of atoms from the cluster.
The thermodynamical functions have been calculated for different values of the radius of the sphere. The
sensitivity of heat capacity to the radius of the sphere allows to assign
the nature of the phase transitions observed. Around the energy associated to the
liquid-gas transition, molecular dynamics simulations have been performed in order to
analyse the evaporation dynamics of the corresponding free clusters. The
analysis of MD trajectories shows that the occurrence of
“boiling" is related to the tendency of the cluster to undergo multiple
evaporation events. The kinetic energy release in this regime is analysed in an attempt to check its capability to probe the phase transitions.
PACS: 36.40.Ei – Phase transition in clusters / 36.40.Qv – Stability and fragmentation of clusters
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2003
