Abstract
We clarified for the first time that the photoinduced phase is quite different in structure from the thermally induced phase by the resonant Raman spectroscopy in the spin-crossover complex, . In the photoinduced phase we observed a number of additional lines assigned to infra-active vibrational modes which are strongly prohibited by selection rules in the thermally induced phase. These results indicate that a dramatic symmetry lowering should take place in the photoinduced phase. The cooperative Jahn-Teller transformation is a plausible candidate for the symmetry lowering in the photoinduced phase.
- Received 13 December 2000
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.2886
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