Tamm floating electron in nanodiamond

Abstract

Nanodiamond exhibits unpaired electrons in magnetization, EPR, NMR and Auger relaxation. Wave functions and eigenenergies of a bound electron in a nanodiamond crystal have been calculated. It has been proved by using quantum mechanical analysis that unpaired electrons are self-condition of a nanodiamond as a limited crystal according to Tamm theory of surface states. The surface electron floating over a nanodiamond gives paramagnetic response and stabilizes the nanoparticle at small range of size. Possibly the spin of the floating electron can be used for floating point calculation in future quantum computers on the base of nanodiamond qubits.