title: Correspondence between Gentile oscillators and N-annulenes.
abstract: The cyclic hydrocarbon polyenes with the general formula CNHN are called N-annulenes. In this paper, we discover that Gentile oscillators and N-annulenes in the Hückel approximation have the same energy spectra determined by the contact points of a regular polygon inscribed on a circle. This correspondence is derived from the symmetry of a C(n + 1) rotational group and dihedral group DihN. On the basis of their energy spectra, we further demonstrate that these two kinds of systems have the same partition functions and, thus, the same thermodynamics properties. N-annulenes can, therefore, be viewed as the natural realization of Gentile systems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Center for Emerging Material and Advanced Devices and Center for Quantum Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University , Taipei 10617, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Yao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Bih-Yaw
authors.initials: BY
authors.lastname: Jin