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Effects of rotation in the energy spectrum of
In this paper, motivated by the experimental evidence of rapidly rotating
molecules in fullerite, we study the low-energy electronic states of
rotating fullerene within a continuum model. In this model, the low-energy
spectrum is obtained from an effective Dirac equation including non-Abelian
gauge fields that simulate the pentagonal rings of the molecule. Rotation is
incorporated into the model by solving the effective Dirac equation in the
rotating referential frame. The exact analytical solution for the
eigenfunctions and energy spectrum is obtained, yielding the previously known
static results in the no rotation limit. Due to the coupling between rotation
and total angular momentum, that appears naturally in the rotating frame, the
zero modes of static are shifted and also suffer a Zeeman splitting
whithout the presence of a magnetic field
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