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Renormalization Group Approach to the Coulomb Pseudopotential for C_{60}

Condensed Matter 2009-10-22 v1

Abstract

A numerical renormalization group technique recently developed by one of us is used to analyse the Coulomb pseudopotential (μ{\mu^*}) in C60{{\rm C}_{60}} for a variety of bare potentials. We find a large reduction in μ{\mu^*} due to intraball screening alone, leading to an interesting non-monotonic dependence of μ{\mu^*} on the bare interaction strength. We find that μ{\mu^*} is positive for physically reasonable bare parameters, but small enough to make the electron-phonon coupling a viable mechanism for superconductivity in alkali-doped fullerides. We end with some open problems.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9411049,
  title  = {Renormalization Group Approach to the Coulomb Pseudopotential for C_{60}},
  author = {Nikos Berdenis and Ganpathy Murthy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9411049},
  year   = {2009}
}

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12 pages, latex, 7 figures available from [email protected]