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Studying gold nanoclusters within the Hubbard model

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The approximation of static fluctuations in the Hubbard model is used to calculate the anticommutator Green’s functions, the thermodynamic averages characterizing the possibilities of electron hopping from site to site, the correlation functions which characterize the probability of finding two electrons on one site of a nanosystem, and the energies of the ground state for the closed atomic structures consisting of three, four, and sixteen gold atoms.

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Original Russian Text © G.I. Mironov, 2008, published in Fizika Metallov i Metallovedenie, 2008, Vol. 105, No. 4, pp. 355–365.

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Mironov, G.I. Studying gold nanoclusters within the Hubbard model. Phys. Metals Metallogr. 105, 327–337 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031918X08040030

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