MELTING AND THE ELECTRONIC ABSORPTION OF BENZENE-ARGON CLUSTERS

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FRIED, LE
MUKAMEL, S
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[1] Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.66.2340
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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The coexistence of sharp and broad features in the electronic spectrum of a chromophore embedded in a rare-gas cluster has been interpreted as a signature of solid-liquid phase coexistence in the melting transition. We perform molecular-dynamics simulations of benzene-Ar(N) clusters which show that the observed spectral features are instead dominated by inhomogeneous broadening due to various cluster configurations.
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