Rotational and Vibrational Dynamics of Interstitial Molecular Hydrogen

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2002-10-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0210353v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

53 pages, 9 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev B (in press). Phys. Rev. B (in press)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.66.214301

The calculation of the hindered roton-phonon energy levels of a hydrogen molecule in a confining potential with different symmetries is systematized for the case when the rotational angular momentum $J$ is a good quantum number. One goal of this program is to interpret the energy-resolved neutron time of flight spectrum previously obtained for H$_{2}$C$_{60}$. This spectrum gives direct information on the energy level spectrum of H$_2$ molecules confined to the octahedral interstitial sites of solid C$_{60}$. We treat this problem of coupled translational and orientational degrees of freedom a) by construction of an effective Hamiltonian to describe the splitting of the manifold of states characterized by a given value of $J$ and having a fixed total number of phonon excitations, b) by numerical solutions of the coupled translation-rotation problem on a discrete mesh of points in position space, and c) by a group theoretical symmetry analysis. Results obtained from these three different approaches are mutually consistent. The results of our calculations explain several hitherto uninterpreted aspects of the experimental observations, but show that a truly satisfactory orientational potential for the interaction of an H$_2$ molecule with a surrounding array of C atoms has not yet been developed.

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