The role of fullerene shell upon stuffed atom polarization potential

TL;DR

This paper investigates how the polarization of a fullerene shell significantly influences the polarization potential of an atom inside it, affecting electron scattering properties, demonstrated through Neon and Argon endohedrals.

Contribution

It introduces a simplified approach to incorporate fullerene polarizability into the polarization potential of endohedral atoms, revealing strong effects on scattering phases and cross-sections.

Findings

Fullerene polarization alters electron scattering phases.

The approach shows significant changes in scattering cross-sections.

Results demonstrate the importance of including fullerene effects in polarization models.

Abstract

We have demonstrated that the polarization of the fullerene shell considerably alters the polarization potential of an atom, stuffed inside a fullerene. This essentially affects the electron elastic scattering phases as well as corresponding cross-sections. We illustrate the general trend by concrete examples of electron scattering by endohedrals of Neon and Argon. To obtain the presented results, we have suggested a simplified approach that permits to incorporate the effect of fullerenes polarizability into the Neon and Argon endohedrals polarization potential. As a result, we obtained numeric results that show strong variations in shape and magnitudes of scattering phases and cross-sections due to effect of fullerene polarization upon the endohedral polarization potential.