GLOBAL POTENTIAL-ENERGY SURFACE FOR SURFACE-CHARGED CLUSTERS

Authors
PASHKEVICH VV KRAPPE HJ WEHNER J
Citation
Vv. Pashkevich et al., GLOBAL POTENTIAL-ENERGY SURFACE FOR SURFACE-CHARGED CLUSTERS, Zeitschrift fur Physik. D, Atoms, molecules and clusters, 40(1-4), 1997, pp. 338-340
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical
Journal title
Zeitschrift fur Physik. D, Atoms, molecules and clusters → ACNP
ISSN journal
01787683
Volume
40
Issue
1-4
Year of publication
1997
Pages
338 - 340
Database
ISI
SICI code
0178-7683(1997)40:1-4<338:GPSFSC>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
We confirm the fission-barrier heights for surface-charged droplets ob tained in earlier work within a very differently defined shape class. In addition we show that the Rayleigh-Taylor instability which occurs for spherical droplets for fissilities x > 1 is already seen for x = 0 .9 in spheroids with sufficiently large eccentricity. We finally prese nt an analytic formula for the electrostatic energy of two touching, s urface-charged, conducting droplets.