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Surprises in the Orbital Magnetic Moment and g-Factor of the Dynamic Jahn-Teller Ion C_{60}^-
We calculate the magnetic susceptibility and g-factor of the isolated
C_{60}^- ion at zero temperature, with a proper treatment of the dynamical
Jahn-Teller effect, and of the associated orbital angular momentum, Ham-reduced
gyromagnetic ratio, and molecular spin-orbit coupling. A number of surprises
emerge. First, the predicted molecular spin-orbit splitting is two orders of
magnitude smaller than in the bare carbon atom, due to the large radius of
curvature of the molecule. Second, this reduced spin-orbit splitting is
comparable to Zeeman energies, for instance, in X-band EPR at 3.39KGauss, and a
field dependence of the g-factor is predicted. Third, the orbital gyromagnetic
factor is strongly reduced by vibron coupling, and so therefore are the
effective weak-field g-factors of all low-lying states. In particular, the
ground-state doublet of C_{60}^- is predicted to show a negative g-factor of
\sim -0.1.Comment: 19 pages RevTex, 2 postscript figures include