Non-classical dipoles in cold niobium clusters

Details Non-classical dipoles in cold niobium clusters Non-classical dipoles in cold niobium clusters

2006-10-31

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0610891v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

25 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

Electric deflections of niobium clusters in molecular beams show that they have permanent electric dipole moments at cryogenic temperatures but not higher temperatures, indicating that they are ferroelectric. Detailed analysis shows that the deflections cannot be explained in terms of a rotating classical dipole, as claimed by Anderson et al. The shapes of the deflected beam profiles and their field and temperature dependences indicates that the clusters can exist in two states, one with a dipole and the other without. Cluster with dipoles occupy lower energy states. Excitations from the lower states to the higher states can be induced by low fluence laser excitation. This causes the dipole to vanish.

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