Eur. Phys. J. D 34, 109-112 (2005)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2005-00130-9

To understand matter from a point of view of clusters

¹ Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, P.R. China
² Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P.R. China

Corresponding author: ^a lijm@sjtu.edu.cn

Received: 6 September 2004
Published online: 13 July 2005

Abstract

We present an optimum valence bond scheme to study important stable geometric structures of clusters, by combining the characteristics of frontier molecular orbitals and the first-principle molecular dynamics simulation. It is interesting to note that even for small size clusters it has already provided clues in some macroscopic properties of the second- and the third-row elements in the period table (e.g. melting and boiling point).