Nonlinear Breathing-like Localized Modes in C60 Nanocrystals

Details Nonlinear Breathing-like Localized Modes in C60 Nanocrystals Nonlinear Breathing-like Localized Modes in C60 Nanocrystals

2011-05-04

arxiv.org/abs/1105.0775v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

6 pages, 6 figures

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We study the dynamics of nanocrystals composed of C60 fullerene molecules. We demonstrate that such structures can support long-lived strongly localized nonlinear oscillatory modes, which resemble discrete breathers in simple lattices. We reveal that at room temperatures the lifetime of such nonlinear localized modes may exceed tens of picoseconds; this suggests that C60 nanoclusters should demonstrate anomalously slow thermal relaxation when the temperature gradient decays in accord to a power law, thus violating the Cattaneo-Vernotte law of thermal conductivity.

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