Electronic structure of spheroidal fullerenes

Details Electronic structure of spheroidal fullerenes Electronic structure of spheroidal fullerenes

2007-03-22

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0703580v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

45 pages, typ article: Book Chapter

Scientific paper

Graphite is an example of a layered material that can be bent to form fullerenes which promise important applications in electronic nanodevices. The spheroidal geometry of a slightly elliptically deformed sphere was used as a possible approach to fullerenes. We assumed that for a small deformation the eccentricity of the spheroid is much more smaller then one. We are interested in the elliptically deformed fullerenes C70 as well as in C60 and its spherical generalizations like big C240 and C540 molecules. In the next study the expanded field-theory model was proposed to study the electronic states near the Fermi energy in spheroidal fullerenes. The low energy electronic wave functions obey a two-dimensional Dirac equation on a spheroid with two kinds of gauge fluxes taken into account. We shown exactly how a small deformation of spherical fullerenes provokes an appearance of fine structure in the electronic energy spectrum as compared to the spherical case. The effect of a weak uniform magnetic field on the electronic structure of slightly deformed fullerene molecules was also studied. We shown that the fine structure of the electronic energy spectrum is very sensitive to the orientation of the magnetic field. We found that the magnetic field pointed in the x direction does not influence the first electronic level whereas it causes a splitting of the second energy level.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

No associations

Rating

Electronic structure of spheroidal fullerenes does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with Electronic structure of spheroidal fullerenes, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Electronic structure of spheroidal fullerenes will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-168101