Table 2. Relative Energies for the Isomers of LinY, n = 1–8 Clusters.
| ground state | energy
state nearest to the ground state |
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|---|---|---|---|
| clusters | spin multiplicity | spin multiplicity | relative energy (eV) |
| LiY | 3 | 1 | 0.088 |
| Li2Y | 2 | 4 | 0.079 |
| Li3Y | 3 | 5 | 0.301 |
| Li4Y | 2 | 4 | 0.279 |
| Li5Y | 1 | 3 | 0.195 |
| Li6Y | 2 | 4 | 0.233 |
| Li7Y | 5 | 1 | 0.125 |
| Li8Y | 2 | 4 | 0.106 |