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Electronic structure studies on neutral, singly and doubly ionized Be n clusters (n ≤ 5) have been carried out in order to investigate the stability and observability of charged clusters. Our studies employ wave function expansion in terms of gaussian type orbitals and have been carried out within local spin density formalism. It is shown that although small doubly ionized clusters are unstable, they are protected from fragmentation by energy barriers. We illustrate this explicitly for trimers by presenting a Born-Oppenheimer surface of Be3, Be+ 3 and Be++ 3. It is argued that depending on their geometries, the observable doubly charged clusters can be generated through a one or two photons ionization. We also present results on the distribution of “hole charge” in doubly ionized clusters and show that a small cluster exhibits metallic like behaviour in regard to distribution of missing electronic charge.
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Khanna, S.N., Reuse, F., Buttet, J. (1989). Electronic structure and stability of charged beryllium clusters. In: Chapon, C., Gillet, M.F., Henry, C.R. (eds) Small Particles and Inorganic Clusters. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74913-1_79
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