Scanning tunneling spectra on single C60 molecules that are sufficiently decoupled from the substrate exhibit a characteristic fine structure, which is explained as due to the dynamic Jahn-Teller effect. Using electron-phonon couplings extracted from density functional theory we calculate the tunneling spectrum through the C60- anionic state and find excellent agreement with measured data.
@article{arxiv.0804.3415,
title = {Dynamic Jahn-Teller effect in electron transport through single C60 molecules},
author = {T. Frederiksen and K. J. Franke and A. Arnau and G. Schulze and J. I. Pascual and N. Lorente},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.3415},
year = {2008}
}