Band gap, excitons, and Coulomb interaction in solid C60.

TLDR: In this article, the Coulomb interaction (U) was found to be 1.5-2 eV with a gap of about 0.7 eV, and it was shown that doped C-60$ should be considered as a highly correlated system with U/W comparable to that in high-mathit{T}}-cuprates and that stoichiometric C-3-is a Mott-Hubbard insulator.

Abstract: The band gap of solid ${\mathrm{C}}_{60}$ is found to be 2.3\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.1 eV. The on-site molecular ${\mathrm{C}}_{60}$ Coulomb interaction (U) as determined from the KVV ${\mathrm{C}}_{60}$ Auger spectrum is found to be 1.6\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.2 eV. This value of U is shown to lead to Frenkel-type molecular excitons in the 1.5--2 eV range. These results lead us to suggest that doped ${\mathrm{C}}_{60}$ should be considered as a highly correlated system with U/W comparable to that in high-${\mathit{T}}_{\mathit{c}}$ cuprates and that stoichiometric ${\mathrm{K}}_{3}$${\mathrm{C}}_{60}$ is a Mott-Hubbard insulator with a gap of about 0.7 eV.