Ruiz A, Breton J, Gomez Llorente JM. A theoretical model of the photoabsorption spectra of carbon buckyonions.
J Chem Phys 2004;
120:6163-72. [PMID:
15267502 DOI:
10.1063/1.1651061]
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Abstract
A theoretical model has been developed to predict the photoabsorption spectra of spherical carbon buckyonions in the region dominated by the pi-plasmon feature. This model makes use of the microscopic electronic structure of the system, which is provided by an effective Huckel one-electron model. The important screening effects are treated within the random phase approximation, whose form is an extension to the dynamic case of the one derived in a previous work for the static polarizabilities of these species. A systematic analysis as a function of the buckyonion size is performed. We compare the spectra obtained in this way with those derived from a different representation of the electron motion, namely a two-dimensional spherical electron gas, and from a classical dielectric model.
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