Quantum tunnelling of muonium via radical states in molecular solids

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The extreme quantum nature of muons and muonium in condensed matter is the result of having a mass that is nine times lighter than that of a hydrogen atom. While this quantum nature may often be masked by thermal excitations, at low temperatures its dramatic effects can become more apparent. This was clearly demonstrated in solid state benzene ALC spectra below 120 K, where we have observed both intramolecular and intermolecular multisite quantum tunnelling of radical states. In this proposal we aim to use molecular engineering to control the sites available to form quantum tunneling states and we will use low temperature solid state ALC spectroscopy to confirm the effect of the different modifications we have made to our reference molecule. The modifications will take the form of selective substitutions of the benzene molecule and four different examples will be studied.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.98002736
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/98002736
Provenance
Creator Dr Francis Pratt; Dr Leandro Liborio; Dr Ben Huddart; Dr Stephen Cottrell; Professor Tom Lancaster; Dr Matteo Aramini
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-11-24T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-11-30T12:01:26Z