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We investigate the existence of stable charged metallic bubbles using the shell correction method. We find that for a given mesoscopic system of n atoms of a given metal and (positive) elementary charges, a metallic bubble turns out to have a lower total energy than a compact spherical cluster, whenever the charge number q is larger than a critical charge number qc. For a magic number (n-q) of free electrons, the spherical metallic bubble may become stable against fission.
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Received: 17 November 1997 / Revised: 28 May 1998 / Accepted: 20 July 1998
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Pomorski, K., Dietrich, K. On charged mesoscopic metallic bubbles. Eur. Phys. J. D 4, 353–364 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530050219
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530050219