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Quantization of Acoustic Modes in Dumbbell Nanoparticles
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Edité par HAL CCSD ; American Physical Society
International audience. The vibrational eigenmodes of dumbbell-shaped polystyrene nanoparticles are recorded by Brillouinlight spectroscopy (BLS), and the full experimental spectra are calculated theoretically. Different fromspheres with a degeneracy of (2l + 1), with l being the angular momentum quantum number, theeigenmodes of dumbbells are either singly or doubly degenerate owing to their axial symmetry. The BLSspectrum reveals a new, low-frequency peak, which is attributed to the out-of-phase vibration of the twolobes of the dumbbell. The quantization of acoustic modes in these molecule-shaped dumbbell particlesevolves from the primary colloidal spheres as the separation between the two lobes increases