Ab initio calculations of the polarizability and the hyperpolarizability of C60

Abstract

The linear polarizability, α, and the second hyperpolarizability, γ, of C60 in gas phase have been computed by ab initio cubic response theory in the random phase approximation and with an efficient parallel implementation. With a tailored, well-tested, basis set, containing more than 1000 contracted basis functions the average values of α and γ are predicted to be 8.58×10−23 cm3 and 5.73×10−35 esu, respectively, which are about 8 and 9 times larger than the corresponding values for benzene calculated at the same level of accuracy.