title: Quantum features of a barely bound molecular dopant: Cs2(3Σu) in bosonic helium droplets of variable size.
abstract: We present in this work the study of small (4)He(N)-Cs(2)((3)Σ(u)) aggregates (2 ≤ N ≤ 30) through combined variational, diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC), and path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) calculations. The full surface is modeled as an addition of He-Cs(2) interactions and He-He potentials. Given the negligible strength and large range of the He-Cs(2) interaction as compared with the one for He-He, a propensity of the helium atoms to pack themselves together, leaving outside the molecular dopant is to be expected. DMC calculations determine the onset of helium gathering at N = 3. To analyze energetic and structural properties as a function of N, PIMC calculations with no bosonic exchange, i.e., Boltzmann statistics, at low temperatures are carried out. At T = 0.1 K, although acceptable one-particle He-Cs(2) distributions are obtained, two-particle He-He distributions are not well described, indicating that the proper symmetry should be taken into account. PIMC distributions at T = 1 K already compare well with DMC ones and show minor exchange effects, although binding energies are still far from having converged in terms of the number of quantum beads. As N increases, the He-He PIMC pair correlation function shows a clear tendency to coincide with the experimental boson-liquid helium one at that temperature. It supports the picture of a helium droplet which carries the molecular impurity on its surface, as found earlier for other triplet dimers.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC, Serrano 123, 28006 Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Ricardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pérez de Tudela
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: López-Durán
authors.forename: Tomás
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: González-Lezana
authors.forename: Gerardo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Delgado-Barrio
authors.forename: Pablo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Villarreal
authors.forename: Franco A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Gianturco
authors.forename: Ersin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Yurtsever