Calculation Of Stability Ranges Of Charged Alkali Halide Clusters

The critical Coulomb explosion number, i.e., the lower bounds of particle sizernrequired to stabilize a multiply charged alkali halide cluster against Coulomb explosionrnwere calculated using a simple Coulomb potential. The magnitude of the charge rangesrnfrom 2 to 10. The influence of sign and position of the charges were assessed . The criticalrnCoulomb explosion number increases with increasing number of charges on the clusters.rnThe critical coulomb explosion number and the charge of the clusters are linearly relatedrnwith a good correlation .rnThe binding energies of the most tightly bound neutral isomers of (NaCl) n, n=2- 12,rnwere calculated using a simple Coulomb potential. The stability order of the variousrnisomers of a given cluster size is predicted using binding energy as a criteria. These resultsrnare compared with other works which employ refined but computationally expensivernpotential models . The agreement is good

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