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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Volume 97, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.97.043309
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- Marsden Fund of the Royal Society of New Zealand [MAU1409]
- EPSRC
- Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (Molecules in Extreme Environments Research Program)
- EPSRC [EP/N035003/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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A relation M-SHS -> LJ between the set of nonisomorphic sticky-hard-sphere clusters M-SHS and the sets of local energy minima M-LJ of the (m, n)-Lennard-Jones potential V-mn(LJ)(r) = epsilon/n-m [mr(-n) - nr(-m)] is established. The number of nonisomorphic stable clusters depends strongly and nontrivially on both m and n and increases exponentially with increasing cluster size N for N greater than or similar to 10. While the map from M-SHS -> M-SHS -> LJ is noninjective and nonsurjective, the number of Lennard-Jones structures missing from the map is relatively small for cluster sizes up to N = 13, and most of the missing structures correspond to energetically unfavorable minima even for fairly low(m, n). Furthermore, even the softest Lennard-Jones potential predicts that the coordination of 13 spheres around a central sphere is problematic (the Gregory-Newton problem). A more realistic extended Lennard-Jones potential chosen from coupled-cluster calculations for a rare gas dimer leads to a substantial increase in the number of nonisomorphic clusters, even though the potential curve is very similar to a (6,12)-Lennard-Jones potential.
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