Low energy electronic states in spheroidal fullerenes
Abstract
The field-theory model is proposed to study the electronic states near the Fermi energy in spheroidal fullerenes. The low energy electronic wavefunctions obey a two-dimensional Dirac equation on a spheroid with two kinds of gauge fluxes taken into account. The first one is so-called K spin flux which describes the exchange of two different Dirac spinors in the presence of a conical singularity. The second flux (included in a form of the Dirac monopole field) is a variant of the effective field approximation for elastic flow due to twelve disclination defects through the surface of a spheroid. We consider the case of a slightly elliptically deformed sphere which allows us to apply the perturbation scheme. It is 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. In particular, two quasi-zero modes in addition to the true zero mode are predicted to emerge in spheroidal fullerenes. An additional 'hyperfine' splitting of the levels (except the quasi-zero-mode states) is found.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0602520,
title = {Low energy electronic states in spheroidal fullerenes},
author = {M. Pudlak and R. Pincak and V. A. Osipov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0602520},
year = {2015}
}
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9 pages