Bosonic Helium droplets with cationic impurities: onset of electrostriction and snowball effects from quantum calculations

E. Coccia, E. Bodo, F. Marinetti +4

Variational MonteCarlo and Diffusion MonteCarlo calculations have been carried out for cations like Li${}^{+}$, Na${}^{+}$ and K${}^{+}$ as dopants of small helium clusters over a range of clu…