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Comment to "Experimental Evidence of a Dynamic Jahn-Teller Effect in C60+"

Nicola Manini, Erio Tosatti

cond-mat.mtrl-sciarXiv:cond-mat/0302266

Abstract

A recent Letter reports photoemission data for the free C60 molecule, showing an interesting three-peak structure, presented as evidence of dynamic Jahn-Teller (DJT) effect in the C60+ ion. Those data constitute, along with earlier spectra by the Uppsala group, the best available piece of experimental evidence about the spectrum of a hole in fullerene. DJT must indeed affect the fivefold-degenerate hu hole molecular orbital, but we contend that the energy separation of these three peaks is far too large for the proposed tunneling interpretation to be correct.

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