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Jan, 2008

Effects of Electron Correlation and Electron-phonon Coupling on the quantum state of a Silicon Vacancy

JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
  • Youichi Yamakawa
  • ,
  • Keisuke Mitsumoto
  • ,
  • Yoshiaki Ono

Volume
77
Number
Suppl. A
First page
266
Last page
268
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1143/JPSJS.77SA.266
Publisher
PHYSICAL SOC JAPAN

Recently, Goto et al. have discovered an anomalous elastic softening due to the vacancy in the crystalline silicon at low temperature by using the ultrasonic measurements. To investigate the quantum state of the silicon vacancy, we introduce a cluster model which includes both the Coulomb interaction between electrons in the dangling bond and the coupling between the electrons and Jahn-Teller phonons. We solve the model by using the numerical diagonalization method and find that the V-0 state with neutral charge shows a transition from S=0 to S=1 in the strong coupling regime. Remarkably, the V+ state with S = 1/2 becomes stable due to the trigonal phonon while unstable due to the tetragonal phonon. The obtained result with the trigonal phonon is consistent with the elastic softening in the B-doped silicon.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1143/JPSJS.77SA.266
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000209384500056&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.1143/JPSJS.77SA.266
  • ISSN : 0031-9015
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000209384500056

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