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The dynamic Jahn-Teller effect is studied for a charged fullerene molecule C −60 with allowance for spin-orbit coupling. The system of self-consistent equations describing the interaction of an electron and the molecular vibrations in the event of spin-orbit splitting of the electronic level is solved analytically. A novel type of nonlinear vibrations occurring in such a system is described. It is shown that with spin-orbit coupling taken into account, the static Jahn-Teller configurations in the C −60 molecule are unstable even in the limit of strong electron-vibronc coupling and that the symmetry of the atomic configuration of the unperturbed C −60 molecule is restored under time averaging.
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Zh. Éksp. Teor. Fiz. 116, 194–203 (July 1999)
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Remova, A.A. Spin-orbit coupling and the dynamic Jahn-Teller effect in the C −60 system. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 89, 107–111 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.558960
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