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Phys. Rev. A 79, 061201(R) (2009) [4 pages]

Photoionization of hybrid states in endohedral fullerenes

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Himadri S. Chakraborty1, Mohamed E. Madjet2, Thomas Renger2, Jan-M. Rost3, and Steven T. Manson4
1Department of Chemistry and Physics, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, Missouri 64468, USA
2Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Free University, Fabeckstrasse 36a, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
3Max-Planck-Institut für Physik Komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Strasse 38, D-01187 Dresden, Germany
4Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA

Received 21 January 2009; published 11 June 2009

Considering a Xe atom endohedrally confined in C60, we predict the formation of another type of atom-fullerene hybrid states. These dimer-type states arise from the near degeneracy of inner levels in contrast to the known overlap-induced hybrid states around the Fermi level of smaller compounds. The photoionization cross sections of these hybrid states exhibit rich structures and are radically different from the cross sections of free atomic or fullerene states.

© 2009 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.79.061201
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.79.061201
PACS:
61.48.−c, 33.80.Eh, 36.40.Cg
 
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