Matter-wave diffraction of quantum magical helium clusters
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Magical helium clusters
Physicists are well accustomed to the concept of magic numbers in size distributions. They crop up in many contexts, ranging from condensed matter physics to nuclear physics. Usually, such magic numbers correspond to states of enhanced ground state stability, and this is often also true for small atomic clusters, e.g. at the completion of structural shells in Van der Waals clusters, or when val...
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عنوان ژورنال: Europhysics News
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0531-7479,1432-1092
DOI: 10.1051/epn:2007003