Excitation of Hydrogen Motion inside a Nickel Vacancy

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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Physical Review Letters, Volume 55, issue 8, pp. 852-855

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By means of the ion-channeling technique, we have shown the existence of a very low-energy (1/43 meV) excitation for deuterium impurities trapped to vacancies in nickel. The excitation is associated with a change of the D location from near octahedral to near tetrahedral. On the basis of calculations of the D potentials within the effective-medium theory and the quantum treatment of the D motion, we suggest that the observed state can be regarded as an excited standing wave of a particle (D) on a sphere (internal surface around the vacancy).

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Besenbacher, F, Nørskov, J K, Puska, M J & Holloway, S 1985, 'Excitation of Hydrogen Motion inside a Nickel Vacancy', Physical Review Letters, vol. 55, no. 8, pp. 852-855. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.55.852