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A graph theoretic approach to atomic displacements in fullerenes

Estrada, Ernesto and Hatano, N. and Matamala, A.R. (2011) A graph theoretic approach to atomic displacements in fullerenes. In: The Mathematics and Topology of Fullerenes (Carbon Materials: Chemistry and Physics). Springer.

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Abstract

We consider a classical mechanics approach to atomic displacements in fullerene molecules. The problem is reduced to the study of the graph Laplacian spectra by deriving an analytical expression for the atomic displacement due to thermal vibrations/oscillations. We then use the concepts of graph isoperimetric constant and graph expansion to prove that "among all graphs on n nodes, those with good expansion properties display the smallest topological displacements of their nodes." Consequently, fullerenes with the property of being Ramanujan graphs, i.e., Ramafullerenes, are those that exhibit the smallest atomic displacements due to thermal movement. We show that fullerenes with the smallest atomic perturbations due to thermal effects are the most stable ones. Then, relationships between atomic displacements, spectral gap, and energy are presented for different families of fullerenes.

Item type: Book Section
ID code: 37710
Keywords: fullerenes , atomic displacement, fullerene molecules , classical mechanics, Mathematics
Subjects: Science > Mathematics
Department: Faculty of Science > Mathematics and Statistics
Depositing user: Pure Administrator
Date deposited: 17 Feb 2012 12:27
Last modified: 27 Aug 2017 00:16
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URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/37710
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