a TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, CB3 0HE, Cambridge, UK
b Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Abstract:
We identify the shortcomings of existing ab initio quantum chemistry calculations for the hyperfine couplings in the recently characterized azafullerene, C59N. Standard gaussian basis sets in the context of all-electron calculations are insufficient to resolve the spin density near the cores of the atoms. Using the projector augmented wave (PAW) method implemented on top of a standard pseudo-potential plane-wave density-functional framework, we compute significantly more accurate values for the Fermi contact interaction.