d and f Electrons in a qp-Quantized Cubical Field |
| M. Kibler and J. Sztucki Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon, IN2P3-CNRS et Université Claude Bernard, 43 Boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France |
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| A procedure for qp-quantizing a crystal-field potential V with an arbitrary symmetry G is developed. Such a procedure is applied to the case where V involves cubic components (G = 0) of the degrees 4 and 6. This case corresponds to d and f electrons in a qp-quantized cubical potential. It is shown that the qp-quantization of the considered cubical potential is equivalent to a symmetry breaking of type O → D4. A general conjecture about this symmetry breaking phenomenon is given. |
| DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.84.857 PACS numbers: 71.70.Ch, 03.65.-w, 02.20.-a |