Which primary mechanism causes a buckyball (C60 molecule) to exhibit superconductivity when doped with alkali metals?

💡 Explanation

When alkali metals dope buckyballs, charge transfer occurs causing Intermolecular Jahn-Teller distortion because asymmetric vibrations create electron pairing and phonon exchange promoting superconductivity. Therefore, Jahn-Teller distortion occurs, rather than Pauli repulsion, resonance, or tunneling which involve different conditions and mechanisms unrelated to buckyball superconductivity.

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