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Structure of mesoscopic Coulomb balls

P. Ludwig, S. Kosse, M. Bonitz

physics.plasm-pharXiv:physics/0409095

Abstract

An analysis of the structural properties of three-dimensional Coulomb clusters confined in a spherical parabolic trap is presented. Based on extensive high accuracy computer simulations the shell configurations and energies for particle numbers in the range 60 N 160 are reported. Further, the intrashell symmetry and the lowest metastable configurations are analyzed for small clusters and a novel type of excited state which does not involve a change of shell configuration is identified.

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