Abstract
Compared with the macrosystem case, the phase transition occurring in fragmenting cluster systems depicts a much richer story. However, most experimental observations have been restricted to an extremely partial view of this picture due to the technical limitations of a large-range scan of the energy deposited in a selected cluster system. Here, taking charge-selected C and C as model systems, we experimentally explore the fragmentation phase transition (FPT) over a large energy range and directly observe some of the most important features of the FPT, the multistage transformation, and the charge effect.
- Received 17 March 2013
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.87.063201
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