Document Type
Article
Source
Journal of Chemical Physics
ISSN
0021-9606
Volume
113
Issue
10
First Page
4083
Last Page
4092
Publication Date
2000
Department
Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Abstract
We determine the atomic and electronic structures for neutral and singly positively chargedberyllium clusters containing from two to six atoms using density functional theory in the local spin density approximation. Ions are moved with a steepest descent method and the electronic wave functions optimized using a fictitious dynamics with simulated annealing, as conceived by Car and Parrinello [Phys. Rev. Lett. 55, 2471 (1985)]. Shell-like orbitals, filling angular momentum states in the order: 1s 1p 2s 1d are obtained. We employ a Mulliken population analysis using an atomic basis to examine how the shell orbitals arise from atomic orbitals. This analysis also allows us to associate the electron density distribution and, in the case of a charged cluster, the distribution of the hole with atomic sites and with regions of overlap between atom pairs. We show quantitatively that the contribution to the bonding density from delocalization of the 1s state is hampered by the appearance of the antibonding 2s state. In the case of charged clusters we observe the tendency of the hole to distribute itself near the most exterior atomic sites in geometries of high symmetry. Keywords
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This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. The following article appeared in Kolchin, A. M., & Hall, R. W. (2000). Electronic properties of small neutral and charged beryllium clusters. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 113(10), 4083-4092 and may be found at https://aip.scitation.org/doi/citedby/10.1063/1.1288388.