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High-resolution valence and core excitation spectra of solid C60 via first-principles calculations and experiment
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Author(s)
Eric L. Shirley, Keith Gilmore, Josh J. Kas, John J. Rehr, Fernando D. Vila, Frederic Fossard, Gilles Hug
Abstract
We present calculated optical and carbon 1s near-edge spectra of crystalline and molecular C60 and those measured with high-resolution electron energy-loss spectroscopy. The near-edge calculations are carried out using three different methods: solution of the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) as implemented in the OCEAN (Obtaining Core Excitation with Ab initio methods and NBSE) suite, the excited-core-hole approach using XCH, and the constrained-occupancy method using the Stockholm-Berlun core-excitation code, StoBe. The valence calculations are also carried out within the BSE formalism using the NIST Bethe-Salpeter Equation solver (NBSE). Theoretical results include self-energy effects on the band gap and band widths, lifetime-damping effects and Debye-Waller effects in the core-excitation case. A comparison of spectral features to those observed illustrates the sensitivity of certain features to computational details, such as self-energy corrections to the band structure and core-hole screening.
Shirley, E.
, Gilmore, K.
, Kas, J.
, Rehr, J.
, Vila, F.
, Fossard, F.
and Hug, G.
(2017),
High-resolution valence and core excitation spectra of solid C60 via first-principles calculations and experiment, Physical Review B, [online], https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.95.115112
(Accessed October 10, 2025)