The Theory of the Jahn-Teller Effect - Arnout Ceulemans

The Theory of the Jahn-Teller Effect

When a Boson meets a Fermion
Buch | Softcover
XIV, 432 Seiten
2023 | 1st ed. 2022
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-09530-6 (ISBN)
160,49 inkl. MwSt

This book provides a comprehensive discussion of the Jahn-Teller Effect (JTE), focusing on the boson-fermion interaction. While current research is concerned with measuring and calculating ever more sophisticated and complex manifestations of the JT effect, the present volume takes away the epicycles of the theory and focuses on the symmetry dilemma at its core. When fermions and bosons meet, they get entangled and form a new dynamic reality. According to the rules of Molecular Symmetry, this reality is limited to a small set of patterns, with degeneracy cardinalities: 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. The novelty of the book is that it adopts a unique mathematical technique, known as the Bargmann-Fock representation, and treats all degeneracies in detail. So far, this method was only applied to the simplest doublet case therefore its extension to the entire range of cases offers a new unified perspective. This volume will help the reader acquire a clear understanding of the JT effect, discover its universal mechanism and it will be a great tool for researchers and graduates working on this topic.

lt;p>Arnout Ceulemans is Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the Catholic University of Leuven. His research is devoted to the development and application of group theory and topology to chemistry, with special focus on the study of the Jahn-Teller effect. He is the author of a textbook on 'Group Theory Applied to Chemistry', and co-authored 'Shattered Symmetry, Group Theory from the eightfold way to the periodic table'. 

Part I: BOSONS AND FERMIONS.- The Impossible Theorem.- Bosons and Fermions.- Boson-Fermion Interactions.- PART II: DYNAMIC SYMMETRIES.- The Rabi Hamiltonian.- The E x e Orbital Doublet.- The Spin Quartet 8 x (e + t2) System and the Symplectic Group Sp(4).- Ansatz for the Jahn-Teller Triplet Instability.- The Icosahedral Quartet and SO(9)  SO(4) Symmetry Breaking.- SO(14)  SO(5) Symmetry Breaking and the Jahn-Teller Quintet Instability.- Jahn's and Teller's Last Case: the Spinor Sextet.- PART III: TOPOGRAPHY.- Conical Intersections and Quantum Fields.- Topography and Chemical Reactivity.- Epilogue.- APPENDICES.- Appendix A The Displaced Oscillator.- Appendix B Derivation of the Coupling Coefficients.- Appendix C SU(n), SO(n), Sp(2n) Lie Algebras.- Appendix D The Birkhoff Transformation.- Appendix E Dirac's Monopole.- Appendix F Yang's Monopole.- Appendix G Topological Graph Theory.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo XIV, 432 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 673 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Chemie Physikalische Chemie
Schlagworte Bargmann-Fock representation • boson-fermion interaction • Icosahedral symmetry • Jahn-Teller Effect • Lie groups • Mexican hat potential • Molecular symmetry groups • Rabi Hamiltonian • symmetry breaking • Vibronic coupling
ISBN-10 3-031-09530-8 / 3031095308
ISBN-13 978-3-031-09530-6 / 9783031095306
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