Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol.121, No.15, 7440-7442, 2004
Polyhedral ground states in clusters of asymmetric hard sphere ions
Clusters of hard sphere ions with sufficient size asymmetry to stabilize a tetrahedral structure in the bulk are found to exhibit trivalent polyhedral ground states in clusters of up to roughly 200 ions. The map of cluster ground state structures over the space of cluster size and ion asymmetry is presented. (C) 2004 American Institute of Physics.