Phy5670/JahnTellerEffect

Introduction

The Jahn-Teller effect (JTE), also called Jahn Teller distortion, is the spontaneous geometrical distortion of a nonlinear molecule to lower the overall energy of the system by breaking the degeneracy of a ground or excited state.

References

[1] M. Born and R. J. Oppenheimer, Ann. Physik (Leipzig) 89, 457 (1927)

[2] H.A. Jahn and E. Teller. Proc. Roy. Soc. A, 161, 220 (1937)

[3] R. Englman, The Jahn-Teller Effect in Molecules and Crystals John Wiley and Sons, 1972