Evidence for Jahn-Teller coupling and Fano-resonance of lower Hg modes in K3C60 and Rb3C60 films from Raman scattering

The Raman scattering study of superconducting thin film of A3C60 (A = K,Rb) carried out upon laser excitations at 1.16 and 2.41 eV have revealed the significant broadening and Fano-lineshapes of several low energy Hg intramolecular modes with relative intensities and widths depending om excitation energies. The most interesting feature of the 1.16 eV excited spectrum is the wide asymmetric band at 400 cm-1 which can be assigned by Fano-shape fitting to enormously broadened Hg(2) mode red shifted compared to its bare frequency of 408 cm-1. The narrowing of all lower Hg modes in insulating A6C60 phase indicates strong electron-phonon coupling of this Jahn-Teller modes in x=3 phase and suggests that this low energy vibrations are contributing to superconducting pairing. However, the possibility to interpret the wide band at 400 cm-1 as the maximum of electronic background can not be ruled out yet and is supported by our preliminary observations of its disappearance at low temperature below Tc. (author). 31 refs, 3 figs