May 13 2003


Average shape from constant T MD

The icosahedral gold cluster with 2624 atoms was heated from 400K to 1075K with constant T MD for 5000000 steps at each temperature. Then further 1000000 steps were performed to collect 100 configurations, over which the average shape was calculated.

Coloring of the surface atoms for instantaneous configurations with larger local curvature

The same configurations as can be downloaded at previous page, but colored the surface atoms with larger local curvature. Download here.

Average shape

T Average shape with
larger-curvature coloring
Ellipsoids with 50 configurations Ellipsoids with 100 configurations
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