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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL B
Volume 68, Issue 4, Pages 529-535Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2009-00119-2
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- Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM), the Netherlands
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Based on the ab initio electronic structure calculations the picture of ferromagnetism in polimerized C-60 is proposed which seems to explain the whole set of controversial experimental data. We have demonstrated that, in contrast with cubic fullerene, in rhombohedral C-60 the segregation of iron atoms is energetically unfavorable which is a strong argument in favor of intrinsic character of carbon ferromagnetism which can be caused by vacancies with unpaired magnetic electrons. It is shown that: (i) energy formation of the vacancies in the rhombohedral phase of C-60 is essentially smaller than in the cubic phase, (ii) there is a strong ferromagnetic exchange interactions between carbon cages containing the vacancies, (iii) presence of iron impurities can diminish essentially the formation energy of intrinsic defects, and (iv) the fusion of the magnetic single vacancies into nonmagnetic bivacancies is energetically favorable. The latter can explain a fragility of the ferromagnetism.
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