Influence of Energy and Entropy on the Melting of Sodium Clusters
- 10 March 2003
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 90 (10), 103401
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.90.103401
Abstract
Energetic and entropic influences on the melting temperatures of size selected sodium clusters are experimentally separated. It is shown that the energetic difference between solid and liquid is the leading influence for the still puzzling features in the size dependence of sodium melting points. Additionally, this energy difference decreases towards smaller cluster sizes and causes steplike melting phase transitions to vanish. The entropy difference between solid and liquid has been found to be strongly correlated with the energy and causes a pronounced damping of the energetic influences.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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