Super-elastic collisions of thermal activated nanoclusters

TL;DR

This paper investigates the impact behavior of thermally fluctuating nanoclusters through theoretical analysis and molecular dynamics simulations, revealing their super-elastic collision properties and statistical impact characteristics.

Contribution

It introduces a theoretical framework for nanocluster collisions and provides simulation-based insights into their super-elastic impact behavior.

Findings

Nanoclusters exhibit super-elastic collisions under thermal activation.

Statistical properties of nanocluster impacts are characterized.

Theoretical and simulation approaches complement each other.

Abstract

Impact processes of nanoclusters subject to thermal fluctuations are investigated, theoretically. In the former half of the paper, we discuss the basis of quasi-static theory. In the latter part, we carry out the molecular dynamics simulation of collisions between two identical nanoclusters, and report some statistical properties of impacts of nanoclusters.