Broken Symmetry Approach and Chemical Susceptibility of Carbon Nanotubes

Details Broken Symmetry Approach and Chemical Susceptibility of Carbon Nanotubes Broken Symmetry Approach and Chemical Susceptibility of Carbon Nanotubes

2009-01-21

arxiv.org/abs/0901.3229v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

26 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables

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Constituting a part of odd electrons that are excluded from the covalent bonding, effectively unpaired electrons are posed by the singlet instability of the single-determinant broken spin-symmetry unrestricted Hartree-Fock (UBS HF) SCF solution. A correct determination of the total number of effectively unpaired electrons ND and its fraction on each atom NDA is well provided by the UBS HF solution. The NDA value is offered to be a quantifier of atomic chemical susceptibility (or equivalently, reactivity) thus highlighting targets that are the most favorable for addition reactions of any type. The approach is illustrated for two families involving fragments of arm-chair (n,n) and zigzag (m,0) single-walled nanotubes differing by length and end structure. Short and long tubes as well as tubes with capped end and open end, in the latter case, both hydrogen terminated and empty, are considered. Algorithms of the quantitative description of any length tubes are suggested.

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