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arXiv 0810.2974cond-mat.mtrl-sci
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Ar与Co_n^+小团簇的成键性质及其对远红外光谱结构测定的影响

Nature of Ar bonding to small Co_n^+ clusters and its effect on the structure determination by far-infrared absorption spectroscopy

Ralf Gehrke, Philipp Gruene, Andre Fielicke, Gerard Meijer, Karsten Reuter

摘要:

多光子解离远红外振动光谱已被证明是一个非常有用的技术,小金属团簇的结构指纹。与以往的研究相反,阳离子V,Nb和Ta簇,测量的小阳离子钴簇的振动光谱显示出强烈的依赖于吸附的Ar探针原子的数目,这增加了减少集群的大小。因此,我们用密度泛函理论分析了Ar-Co_n^+键的性质及其对振动光谱的影响。在第一步中,大力低洼的异构体结构确定通过第一性原理盆跳跃采样运行和它们的振动光谱计算不同数量的吸附Ar原子。这些指纹与实验数据的比较,使在某些情况下,一个独特的分配的集群结构。独立的具体的低洼异构体,我们得到了显着增加的Ar的结合能的最小的集群大小,这与观察到的Ar探针原子的IR光谱上的影响增加很好地相关。对电子结构的进一步分析激发了一个简单的静电图像,不仅解释了这种结合能趋势,而且还解释了为什么稀有气体原子的影响比以前研究的系统强得多。

英文摘要:

Far-infrared vibrational spectroscopy by multiple photon dissociation has proven to be a very useful technique for the structural fingerprinting of small metal clusters. Contrary to previous studies on cationic V, Nb and Ta clusters, measured vibrational spectra of small cationic cobalt clusters show a strong dependence on the number of adsorbed Ar probe atoms, which increases with decreasing cluster size. Focusing on the series Co_4^+ to Co_8^+ we therefore use density-functional theory to analyze the nature of the Ar-Co_n^+ bond and its role for the vibrational spectra. In a first step, energetically low-lying isomer structures are identified through first-principles basin-hopping sampling runs and their vibrational spectra computed for a varying number of adsorbed Ar atoms. A comparison of these fingerprints with the experimental data enables in some cases a unique assignment of the cluster structure. Independent of the specific low-lying isomer, we obtain a pronounced increase of the Ar binding energy for the smallest cluster sizes, which correlates nicely with the observed increased influence of the Ar probe atoms on the IR spectra. Further analysis of the electronic structure motivates a simple electrostatic picture that not only explains this binding energy trend, but also why the influence of the rare-gas atom is much stronger than in the previously studied systems.

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