The study of simple metal clusters has burgeoned in the last decade, motivated by the
growing interest in the evolution of physical properties from the atom to the bulk solid, a …

The jellium model of simple metal clusters has enjoyed remarkable empirical success,
leading to many theoretical questions. In this review, we first survey the hierarchy of …

The structural properties of free nanoclusters are reviewed. Special attention is paid to the
interplay of energetic, thermodynamic, and kinetic factors in the explanation of cluster …

There has been a great interest in understanding the interactions between light and noble
metal nanoparticles ever since Michael Faraday's study of the ruby-red color of colloidal …

Up to this point, the electronic structure method to calculate the ab initio forces rIh jHej i was
not speci ed in detail. It is immediately clear that ab initio molecular dynamics is not tied to …

A method for calculations of the ground-state energy and structure of finite systems and for
molecular-dynamics simulations of the evolution of the nuclei on the Born-Oppenheimer …

We present a systematic study of the electronic properties and the geometric structure of
noble metal clusters X n ν (X= Cu, Ag, Au; ν=− 1, 0,+ 1; n⩽ 13 and n= 20), obtained from first …

The field of cluster research can trace its origins back to the mid-nineteenth century when
early studies of colloids, aerosols, and nucleation phenomena were reported. The field …

We have investigated the lowest-energy structures and electronic properties of the Au n (n=
2–2 0) clusters based on density-functional theory with local density approximation. The …

Boltzmann''s formula S= In [W (E)] defines the microcanonical ensemble. The usual
textbooks on statistical mechanics start with the microensemble but rather quickly switch to …