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Spatial Separation of Molecular Conformers and Clusters
Published on: January 9, 2014
Quantum Monte Carlo study of small pure and mixed spin-polarized tritium clusters
I Beslić1, L Vranjes Markić, J Boronat
1Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Split, HR-21000 Split, Croatia.
Abstract:
We have investigated the stability limits of small spin-polarized clusters consisting of up to ten spin-polarized tritium T downward arrow atoms and the mixtures of T downward arrow with spin-polarized deuterium D downward arrow and hydrogen H downward arrow atoms. All of our calculations have been performed using the variational and diffusion Monte Carlo methods. For clusters with D downward arrow atoms, the released node procedure is used in cases where the wave function has nodes. In addition to the energy, we have also calculated the structure of small clusters using unbiased estimators. Results obtained for pure T downward arrow clusters are in good accordance with previous calculations, confirming that the trimer is the smallest spin-polarized tritium cluster. Our results show that mixed T downward arrow-H downward arrow clusters having up to ten atoms are unstable and that it takes at least three tritium atoms to bind one, two, or three D downward arrow atoms. Among all the considered clusters, we have found no other Borromean states except the ground state of the T downward arrow trimer.
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