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On the possibility to consider fullerene shell C60 as a conducting sphere

Atomic Physics 2009-11-11 v1 Atomic and Molecular Clusters

Abstract

Correctness of the model representing the fullerene shell C60 as a conducting sphere has been analyzed. The static and dynamical polarizabilities of the molecule C60 have been calculated on the basis of experimental data on the photo-absorption cross- section of fullerene. It has been shown that the real C60 in the static electric field behaves most likely as a set of separate carbon atoms rather than as a conducting sphere and its static polarizability exceeds by more than two times that of conducting sphere.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0604104,
  title  = {On the possibility to consider fullerene shell C60 as a conducting sphere},
  author = {M. Ya. Amusia and A. S. Baltenkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0604104},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, 2 figures