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Nonlinear optical properties in the fullerene C$_{60}$ and the extracted higher fullerenes -- C$_{70}$, C$_{76}$, C$_{78}$, and C$_{84}$ -- are theoretically investigated by using the exciton formalism and the sum-over-states method. We…
The optical excitations in $\rug$ and higher fullerenes, including isomers of C$_{76}$, C$_{78}$, and C$_{84}$, are theoretically investigated. We use a tight binding model with long-range Coulomb interactions, treated by the Hartree-Fock…
Effects of Coulomb interactions and lattice fluctuations in the optical absorption spectra of C60 and C70 are theoretically investigated by using a tight binding model with long-range Coulomb interaction and bond disorder. Anisotropy…
Nonlinear optical properties of extracted higher fullerenes - C70, C76, C78, and C84 - are theoretically investigated. Magnitudes of off-resonant third-harmonic-generation are calculated by the intermediate exciton theory. We find that…
Optical absorption spectra of higher fullerenes (C70 and C76) as well as of C60 are calculated by a tight binding model with a long range Coulomb interaction. A reasonable parameter set gives calculated spectra which are in overall…
Molecular exciton effects in the neutral and maximally doped C$_{60}$ (C$_{70}$) are considered using a tight binding model with long-range Coulomb interactions and bond disorder. By comparing calculated and observed optical spectra, we…
Optical absorption spectra of C60^6- are theoretically investigated in order to analyze the optical properties of alkali metal doped fullerites A6C60. We use a tight binding model with long ranged Coulomb interactions and bond disorder.…
A theory of optical excitations by using a tight binding model with long-range Coulomb interactions is developed. The model is applied to a C60 molecule and a cluster, and is treated by the Hartree-Fock approximation followed by a…
Molecular exciton effects in the neutral and maximally doped C60 (C70) are considered using a tight binding model with long-range Coulomb interactions and bond disorder. By comparing calculated and observed optical spectra, we conclude that…
We theoretically investigate optical absorption spectra of $\soc^{6-}$ and $\rug^{6-}$, and discuss relations with the optical properties of alkali metal doped fullerides $A_6\soc$ and $A_6\rug$. This is a valid approach for systems where…
We theoretically investigate the effects of Coulomb interaction, at the level of unscreened Hartree-Fock approximation, on third harmonic generation of undoped graphene in an equation of motion framework. The unperturbed electronic states…
The electron-phonon and Coulomb interactions inC$_{60}$, and larger fullerene spheres are analyzed. The coupling between electrons and intramolecular vibrations give corrections $\sim 1 - 10$ meV to the electronic energies for C$_{60}$, and…
We report results on ab initio calculations of excited states of the fullerene molecule by using configuration interaction (CI) approach with singly excited determinants (SCI). We have used both the experimental geometry and the one…
We review the recent theoretical treatment of fullerenes as pi-conjugated systems. Polaronic properties due to the Jahn-Teller type effects are mainly discussed. (1) A Su-Schrieffer-Heeger type electron-phonon model is applied to…
At energies below the Coulomb barrier, the fusion excitation function for the $^{12}$C+$^{12}$C system shows prominent fine structures, whereas that for the $^{12}$C+$^{13}$C system behaves more smoothly as a function of energy. We…
Using our recently proposed Bethe-Salpeter $G_0W_0$ formulation, we explore the optical absorption spectra of fullerene (C$_{60}$) near coinage metal surfaces (Cu, Ag, and Au). We pay special attention to how the surface plasmon $\omega_S$…
Considering C$_{60}$ as a model system for describing field emission from the extremity of a carbon nanotip, we explore electron emission from this fullerene excited by an intense, near-infrared, few-cycle laser pulse…
Charge-transfer (CT) exciton effects are investigated for the optical absorption spectra of crosslinked C60 systems by using the intermediate exciton theory. We consider the C60-dimers, and the two (and three) molecule systems of the…
Exciton effects on conjugated polymers are investigated in soliton lattice states. We use the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model with long-range Coulomb interactions. The Hartree-Fock (HF) approximation and the single-excitation configuration-…
The third-order nonlinear optical susceptiblity chi(3) of a C60 molecule is calculated by using a free-electron model as well as by taking Coulomb interactions into account. The free-electron model yields chi(3) magnitudes which are in…