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    COLLOQUIUM OF THE LABORATORY FOR COMPUTER DESIGN OF MATERIALS
        Institute for Computational Sciences and Informatics
				CSI 929
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        Metal Clusters that Behave Like Giant Atomic Nuclei
	               
			T. Patrick Martin
 	    Max Planck Institut, Stuttgart, Germany

    It is not obvious that metal clusters should behave like atomic
nuclei -- but they do. Of course, the energy and distance scales 
are quite different. But, aside from this, the properties of these 
two forms of condensed matter are amazingly similar. The shell model 
developed by nuclear physicists describes very nicely the
electronic properties of alkali metal clusters. The giant dipole 
resonances in the excitation spectra of nuclei have their analogue 
in the plasmon resonances of metal clusters. Finally, the droplet 
model describing the fission of unstable nuclei can be successively 
applied to the fragmentation of highly charged metal clusters. The
similarity between clusters and nuclei is not accidental. Both 
systems consist of fermions moving, nearly freely, in a confined 
space.

                      Monday , March 17, 1997
                               4:30 pm
                      Room 206, Science & Tech. I
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