Abstract
AbstractA study of alkaline metal clusters, both neutral and ionized is presented as a function of the number of atoms in the cluster N in the Thomas‐Fermi‐Dirac‐Weizsäcker approximation for the spherical jellium model. Numerical solutions are found for the electronic density using the program COLSYS and the surface energy and the ionization energy of the clusters are studied as functions of N for N up to 10000 atoms. To calculate the polarizability of the cluster, a one‐parameter trial density is proposed, based upon the numerical solution for neutral clusters, to approximate the distorted electronic density under a constant electric field. An alternative approach is also considered and described, but it is not implemented numerically in this work.
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