Increasing the visibility of quantum effects in neutron Compton scattering: a case study using LiH and LiD

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NCS is a natural method to investigate nuclear quantum effects in condensed-matter systems and molecules. However, it is not often used as a first method of choice due to the relatively poor visibility of non-Gaussian components in the momentum distribution. To overcome these difficulties, we propose VESUVIO measurements on LiH and LiD at 10K beyond the single-scattering regime using Monte-Carlo fitting techniques. Our methodology to obtain atomic-momentum distributions from first-principles calculations (recently tested on LiH and LiD) will be used to compare these experimental data with ab initio results. Use of a generalized non-Gaussian model as a seed for a MC transport-code calculation will enable to fit both single- and multiple-scattering contributions and provide fresh insights into the effective local Born-Oppenheimer potential in LiH/LiD.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.42580981
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/42580981
Provenance
Creator Dr Selena Richards; Dr Matthew Krzystyniak; Professor Felix Fernandez-Alonso; Ms Gabriella Graziano
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
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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Discipline Chemistry; Construction Engineering and Architecture; Engineering; Engineering Sciences; Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2013-12-05T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-12-09T00:00:00Z