Physics – Condensed Matter – Other Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2004-07-09
"Vibronic Interactions: Jahn-Teller Effect in Crystals and Molecules" p. 5-14 edited by M.D. Kaplan and G.O. Zimmerman (Kluwer
Physics
Condensed Matter
Other Condensed Matter
10 pages, 2 figures
Scientific paper
In 1937 the Jahn-Teller (JT) effect addressed the instability (potential or actual) of non-linear symmetric molecules with degenerate orbital electronic states. In view of the large variety of JT activity that has taken place since then, we might broaden our perspective to look at works whose subjects fall under the more general heading of "Strong interactions between two dissimilar systems" (where one system is usually bosonic and the other fermionic). In these intervening years we find several highly important works in Physics and Chemistry that come under this heading and were either connected with, or arose from, JT systems, problems and approaches. Apart from high temperature superconductors, we mention Yang-Mills gauge-forces, symmetry breaking (in elementary particles), conical intersections in molecular potential surfaces, surface crossings between them in chemical reactions, entanglements in the quantum theory of measurements and Berry phases. We elaborate on the last two topics. We show first that the slow evolution of a Txe coupling from the weak to strong regime can model the quantum mechanical three-state measurement situation, when the positions of the nuclei acts as the measuring device. We then employ recently derived integral relations between component moduli and phases in a time dependent wave-function to demonstrate the equivalence between the state-reduction and the phase decoherence interpretations of the measurement process.
Englman Robert
Yahalom Asher
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