Electronic and magnetic properties of small rhodium clusters
- School of Physics, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 USM, Penang (Malaysia)
- Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Multimedia University, Melaka Campus, 75450 Melaka (Malaysia)
We report a theoretical study of the electronic and magnetic properties of rhodium-atomic clusters. The lowest energy structures at the semi-empirical level of rhodium clusters are first obtained from a novel global-minimum search algorithm, known as PTMBHGA, where Gupta potential is used to describe the atomic interaction among the rhodium atoms. The structures are then re-optimized at the density functional theory (DFT) level with exchange-correlation energy approximated by Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof generalized gradient approximation. For the purpose of calculating the magnetic moment of a given cluster, we calculate the optimized structure as a function of the spin multiplicity within the DFT framework. The resultant magnetic moments with the lowest energies so obtained allow us to work out the magnetic moment as a function of cluster size. Rhodium atomic clusters are found to display a unique variation in the magnetic moment as the cluster size varies. However, Rh{sub 4} and Rh{sub 6} are found to be nonmagnetic. Electronic structures of the magnetic ground-state structures are also investigated within the DFT framework. The results are compared against those based on different theoretical approaches available in the literature.
- OSTI ID:
- 22391545
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1657, Issue 1; Conference: PERFIK 2014: National Physics Conference 2014, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), 18-19 Nov 2014; Other Information: (c) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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GENERAL PHYSICS
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
ALGORITHMS
APPROXIMATIONS
ATOMIC CLUSTERS
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
DENSITY FUNCTIONAL METHOD
ELECTRON CORRELATION
ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE
GROUND STATES
MAGNETIC MOMENTS
MAGNETIC PROPERTIES
MULTIPLICITY
POTENTIALS
RHODIUM
SPIN