Deformation of a Spherical Molecule

• Authors: M. Apostol
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The deformation suffered by a hollow, spherical molecule as an effect of rotations is studied within a continuum model which might be relevant for the fullerene molecule. The spherical elasticity is established to the lowest order in deformations and the natural perturbation parameter required by the stability of the object is identified as the square ratio of the rotation to the radial vibration pulsations. It is also shown that the main effect of the centrifugal coupling between rotations and radial vibrations is a static deformation whose energy is beyond the harmonic approximation.

Keywords

EN

33.20.-t; 61.46.+w; 46.30.-i

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 1995
• Volume: 88
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 315-325

Dates

published

1995-08

received

1994-12-06

Contributors

author

M. Apostol

• Department of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Atomic Physics, Magurele-Bucharest MG-6, P.O. Box MG-35, Romania