The temperature dependence of rotational tunneling |
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Authors: | Alfred Hüller |
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Institution: | (1) Institut für Festkörperforschung, Kernforschungsanlage Jülich GmbH, Postfach 1913, D-5170 Jülich 1, Germany |
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Abstract: | In the last few years tunneling transitions have been observed for the highly symmetric groups CH4, CD4, NH
4
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, and CH3 rotating in various environments. Typically the tunneling lines shift to lower energies with increasing temperatures. In this paper the shift of the tunneling energy is calculated in a microscopic approach to the problem. The coupling of the rotating groups to the lattice modes is studied in two stages. First the rotating group is coupled to a single oscillator, then to the modes of a Debye crystal. The first calculation leads to a set of discrete tunneling lines with an energy that diminishes as the oscillator is excited into higher levels. The second approach yields a single tunneling line shifted down-wards with increasing phonon population. The shift is proportional toT
4. The calculation explains the energy shift of the tunneling lines with reasonable values for the coupling parameters. In some cases also a broadening has been observed which does not follow from our calculations. |
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