Interatomic Electronic Decay in Endohedral Fullerenes
Abstract
Ionization of an atom X in an endohedral fullerene complex X@Cn can lead to a wealth of nonradiative decay processes. These interatomic processes occur due to the correlation existing between the atomic and the fullerene electrons and do not take place in the free species X. Considering Ne@C60 as an example, we calculate the rates of the interatomic decay processes and show that the interatomic decay in Ne@C60 is ultrafast. Moreover, our analysis suggests that interatomic decay in an endohedral fullerene does not necessarily lead to the destruction of the complex.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- February 2006
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.053401
- Bibcode:
- 2006PhRvL..96e3401A
- Keywords:
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- 36.40.Qv;
- 32.80.Hd;
- 34.30.+h;
- Stability and fragmentation of clusters;
- Auger effect and inner-shell excitation or ionization;
- Intramolecular energy transfer;
- intramolecular dynamics;
- dynamics of van der Waals molecules