%0 Journal Article
%T Spectroscopy, Interactions and Level Splittings in Au Nanoparticles
%A D. Davidovic
%A M. Tinkham
%J Physics
%D 1999
%I arXiv
%R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.1644
%X We have measured the electronic energy spectra of nm-scale Au particles using a new tunneling spectroscopy configuration. The particle diameters ranged from 5nm to 9nm, and at low energies the spectrum is discrete, as expected by the electron-in-a-box model. The density of tunneling resonances increases rapidly with energy, and at higher energies the resonances overlap forming broad resonances. Near the Thouless energy, the broad resonances merge into a continuum. The tunneling resonances display Zeeman splitting in a magnetic field. Surprisingly, the g-factors (~0.3) of energy levels in Au nano-particles are much smaller than the g-factor (2.1) in bulk gold.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9905043v1