Dynamical Jahn-Teller effect of fullerene anions

Dan Liu, Naoya Iwahara, and Liviu F. Chibotaru
Phys. Rev. B 97, 115412 – Published 12 March 2018
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Abstract

The dynamical Jahn-Teller effect of C60n anions (n=1–5) is studied using the numerical diagonalization of the linear pn8d Jahn-Teller Hamiltonian with the currently established coupling parameters. It is found that in all anions the Jahn-Teller effect stabilizes the low-spin states, resulting in the violation of Hund's rule. The energy gain due to the Jahn-Teller dynamics is found to be comparable to the static Jahn-Teller stabilization. The Jahn-Teller dynamics influences the thermodynamic properties via strong variation of the density of vibronic states with energy. Thus the large vibronic entropy in the low-spin states enhances the effective spin gap of C603 quenching the spin crossover. From the calculations of the effective spin gap as a function of the Hund's rule coupling, we found that the latter should amount 40±5 meV in order to cope with the violation of Hund's rule and to reproduce the large spin gap. With the obtained numerical solutions, the matrix elements of electronic operators for the low-lying vibronic levels and the vibronic reduction factors are calculated for all anions.

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  • Received 1 November 2017
  • Revised 12 January 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.115412

©2018 American Physical Society

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  1. Physical Systems
Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

Authors & Affiliations

Dan Liu, Naoya Iwahara*, and Liviu F. Chibotaru

  • Theory of Nanomaterials Group, University of Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium

  • *naoya.iwahara@kuleuven.be
  • liviu.chibotaru@kuleuven.be

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Vol. 97, Iss. 11 — 15 March 2018

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