Electron exchanges in nuclear spin conversion of hydrogen physisorbed on diamagnetic insulators
Electron exchanges in nuclear spin conversion of hydrogen physisorbed on diamagnetic insulators
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物理吸附在反磁性绝缘体上的氢的核自旋转换中的电子交换
DOI:
10.1140/epjb/e2014-50282-2
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发表时间:
2014
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通讯作者:
F. Ghiglieno
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作者:
E. Ilisca;F. Ghiglieno
Models are provided and discussed to interpret new experiments on the ortho-para conversion of hydrogen “physisorbed” on dielectric and diamagnetic surfaces. Electro-static and dynamical molecule-surface interactions complemented by hyperfine contacts are shown to be generally more effective than the magnetic ones. Coulomb repulsion induces exchanges of molecular and surface electrons and excites triplet spin states which are effective in the angular momenta transfers to the catalyst. The conversion time is obtained as the square of a ratio of two energies: the exchange and excitation ones. The main channel is found composed of triplet excitations of the order of the eV, induced by molecule-surface exchanges of about a hundred of meV. It explains the zinc and oxygen rates of about one minute observed on the MOF samples as well as the about ten times slower ones on the ASW. The same mechanism is also shown to occur in the transient regime, but faster. Finally it explains also the conversion of a few hours observed for interstitial hydrogen in silicium by transitions to the conduction band induced by about 10 meV electron exchanges. The molecule-surface orbital geometries of the MOF and ASW configurations are displayed and the quantum path when unfolded exhibits the successive broken symmetries.