Abstract
We describe a family of icosahedral structures for lead clusters. In general, structures in this family contain a Mackay icosahedral core with a reconstructed two-shell outer-layer. This family includes the anti-Mackay icosahedra, which has a Mackay icosahedral core but with most of the surface atoms in hexagonal close-packed positions. Using a many-body glue potential for lead, we identify two icosahedral structures in this family which have the lowest energies of any known structure in the size range from 900 to 15 000 lead atoms. We show that these structures are stabilized by a feature of the many-body glue part of the interatomic potential.
- Received 23 July 2002
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.66.235402
©2002 American Physical Society
