2003/06/23 by D. A. Gorokhov, Denis A. Gorokhov, Piet W. Brouwer · 16 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Chemical Physics Studies #Atomic physics #Condensed matter physics #Electron #Electron scattering #Materials science #Metal #Metallurgy #Nanoparticle #Orbit (dynamics) #Particle physics #Physics #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Quantum mechanics #Scattering #Spin (aerodynamics) #Theoretical and Computational Physics #Thermodynamics #cond-mat.dis-nn #cond-mat.mes-hall #cond-mat.mtrl-sci
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.91.186602
published in Physical Review Letters 91(18), 186602 (American Physical Society) · RevTex, 2 figures inserted
arxiv created 2003/06/23 · openalex publication_date 2003/10/31 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We investigate the combined effect of spin-orbit scattering and electron-electron interactions on the probability distribution of g factors of metal nanoparticles. Using random matrix theory, we find that even a relatively small interaction strength significantly increases g-factor fluctuations for not-too-strong spin-orbit scattering (ratio of spin-orbit rate and single-electron level spacing 1/tau(so)delta < or near 1), and leads to the possibility to observe g factors larger than 2.