https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2005-00157-x
Molecular dynamics study of the surface melting of iron clusters
Experimental Physics, School of Physics and Engineering Physics,
Göteborg University and Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96 Göteborg, Sweden
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Received:
6
September
2004
Published online:
13
July
2005
Abstract
Molecular dynamics simulations have been used to study the surface melting of iron clusters. It is found that, even when the temperature is several hundreds of Kelvin below the cluster melting point, the crystalline center of the cluster is surrounded by surface atoms that exhibit large amplitude diffusion from their original positions. This results in surface melting of the cluster.
PACS: 31.15.Qg – Molecular dynamics and other numerical methods / 36.40.Ei – Phase transitions in clusters
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2005
