Abstract
Barriers and energy surfaces of competing decay channels of the metal clusters , , , and have been computed. In general, evaporation of a charged trimer is the favored fission path. Due to shell effects, evaporation of a single ion is energetically comparable in the case of , and symmetric fission is equivalent in the case of .
- Received 14 July 1995
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.52.16365
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