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In this paper we employ the hydrodynamic formulation of time-dependent density functional theory to obtain the van der Waals coefficientsC 6 andC 8 of alkali metal clusters of various sizes including very large clusters. Such calculations become computationally very demanding in the orbital-based Kohn-Sham formalism, but are quite simple in the hydrodynamic approach. We show that for interactions between the clusters of the same sizes,C 6 andC 8 scale as the sixth and the eighth power of the cluster radius, respectively, and approach their classically predicted values for the large size clusters.
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Banerjee, A., Harbola, M.K. Van der Waals coefficients for alkali metal clusters and their size dependence. Pramana - J Phys 66, 423–433 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02704395
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