Tunneling effect of hydrogen and deuterium in alpha-Mn

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DINS is capable of observing coherent tunneling of protons in a double well potential through the effects of the tunneling on the momentum distribution of the protons. In our previous experiment at VESUVIO two years ago we demonstrated this capability in a simple double well system, hydrogen in the interstitial sites of alpha-Mn. The oscillations in the momentum distribution, analogous to the diffraction pattern in a two slit experiment, were clearly seen at 2 K and disappeared at 290 K, when the temperature greatly exceeds the tunnel splitting (6.3 meV). We propose here to study the temperature dependence of the momentum distribution of H in alpha-Mn at intermediate temperatures, and the momentum distribution of deuterium in alpha-Mn, which occupies a similar positions in the lattice, but has ~4 times smaller tunnel splitting of the vibrational ground state, compared to hydrogen.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24081606
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24081606
Provenance
Creator Professor George Reiter; Dr Alexander Kolesnikov
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2012
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2009-06-19T08:44:31Z
Temporal Coverage End 2009-07-21T07:52:46Z