Renormalization-group approach to the Coulomb pseudopotential for C60

Nikos Berdenis, Ganpathy Murthy

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Abstract

A numerical renormalization-group technique recently developed by one of us is used to analyze the Coulomb pseudopotential (*) in C60 for a variety of short-range bare potentials. We find a large reduction in * due to intraball screening alone, leading to an interesting nonmonotonic dependence of * on the bare interaction strength. We find that * is positive for physically reasonable bare parameters, but small enough to make the electron-phonon coupling a viable mechanism for superconductivity in alkali-doped fullerides. We end with some open problems.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3083-3086
Number of pages4
JournalPhysical Review B
Volume52
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 1995

Funding

FundersFunder number
U.S. Department of Energy Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Project Oak Ridge National Laboratory Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment National Science Foundation National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center National Natural Science Foundation of China9311949

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Condensed Matter Physics

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