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g-Factors and Discrete Energy Level Velocities in Nanoparticles

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-11 v2 Materials Science

Abstract

We establish relations between the statistics of g factors and the fluctuations of energy in metallic nanoparticles where spin-orbit coupling is present. These relations assume that the electron dynamics in the grain is chaotic. The expressions we provide connect the second moment of the g factor to the root-mean square ``level velocity'' (the derivative of the energy with respect to magnetic field) calculated at magnetic fields larger than a characteristic correlation field. Our predictions relate readily observable quantities and allow for a parameter-free comparison with experiments.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0607564,
  title  = {g-Factors and Discrete Energy Level Velocities in Nanoparticles},
  author = {Eduardo R. Mucciolo and Caio H. Lewenkopf and Leonid I. Glazman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0607564},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, to appear in Phys. Rev. B Rapid Comm