It is shown that the layered antiferromagnetic order in stoechiometric LaMnO3 cannot be understood purely from electronic interactions. On the contrary, it mainly results from strong cooperative Jahn-Teller deformation. Those involve a compression of the Mn−O octahedron along the c−axis (mode Q3 < 0), while alternate Jahn-Teller deformations occur in the ab−plane (mode Q2). These deformations s...

We review the fundamentals of Jahn-Teller interactions and their field theoretical modelings and show that a 2+1 dimensional gauge theory where the gauge field couples to “flavored fermions” arises in a natural way from a two-band model describing the dynamical Jahn-Teller effect. The theory exhibits a second order phase transition to novel finite-temperature superconductivity.

using different DFT methods including B3LYP/6-31G(d), VWN/6-31G(d), PBE/TZP and PBE/6-31G(d) shows that, contrary to C60 , which prefers D5d symmetry, the ground state of B80 + adopts S6 point group symmetry. A D3d structure is identified as a saddle point among the S6 minima of B80 . The distortion of D3d to S6 in B80 + is attributed to a superposition of Jahn–Teller and pseudo-Jahn–Teller eff...

A band system ofjet-cooled Au, has been located in the near infrared region of the spectrum using resonant two-photon ionization spectroscopy. The origin band is located at 13 354.15 cm-’ and the system extends more than 700 cm ~’ further to the blue. The excited state displays a radiative lifetime of approximately 28 ps, corresponding to an absorption oscillator strength offzO.0003. Accordingl...

We present insights into the electronic structure and relaxation of N-V color centers in diamond which support the contention that Jahn-Teller effects may play a very significant role in the excited E state. We also consider several opposing arguments, but show that the unusual relaxation behavior of the N-V center can mask common signatures of the Jahn-Teller effect, and that it remains a stro...

The topology of the ground-state potential energy surface of M(CN)(6) with orbitally degenerate (2)T(2g) (M = Ti(III) (t(2g)(1)), Fe(III) and Mn(II) (both low-spin t(2g)(5))) and (3)T(1g) ground states (M = V(III) (t(2g)(2)), Mn(III) and Cr(II) (both low-spin t(2g)(4))) has been studied with linear and quadratic Jahn-Teller coupling models in the five-dimensional space of the epsilon(g) and tau...

The Jahn-Teller effect used semi-theoretically to analyse UV-visible spectra of the diamond like-carbon films on Si substrates. By deconvolution of UV-visible absorption spectra of the typical films, different absorption lines found. For each sample, six lines which were related to V • by Jahn-Teller effect are distinguished. Our theoretical approach based on distortion of the V • as the conseq...

It is demonstrated that under common conditions a molecular solid subject to Jahn-Teller interactions supports stable Q-ball-like nontopological solitons. Such solitons represent a localized lump of excess electric charge in periodic motion accompanied by a time-dependent shape distortion of a set of adjacent molecules. The motion of the distortion can correspond to a true rotation or to a pseu...