This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.20933008). The theoretical calculations were conducted on the ScGrid and Deepcomp7000 of the Supercomputing Center, Com- puter Network Information Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences. We thank Dr. Xun-lei Ding and Dr. Yan-xia Zhao for valuable discussion.
Oxygen-poor vanadium oxide clusters, V2On+ (n=l, 2), V3On+ (n=l, 2, 3), and V4O3+, were produced by laser vaporization and were mass-selected and photodissociated with 532 and 266 nm photons. The geometric stru...