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Berry-Phase and Symmetry of the Ground State in Dynamical Jahn-Teller Systems

Paolo De Los Rios, Nicola Manini

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9709094

Abstract

We show through selected examples, relevant to the physics of fullerene ions, that the presence of a Berry phase in dynamical Jahn-Teller systems does not guarantee the degeneracy of the ground state, contrary to what previously believed. Moreover, we introduce a new class of Jahn-Teller systems with no Berry phase, as a generalization of the basic icosahedral H h case.

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