Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2003-01-23
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
36 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B on 12 December 2002
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.67.245413
We study the coupled rotation-vibration levels of a hydrogen molecule in a confining potential with cylindrical symmetry. We include the coupling between rotations and translations and show how this interaction is essential to obtain the correct degeneracies of the energy level scheme. We applied our formalism to study the dynamics of H$_{2}$ molecules inside a "smooth" carbon nanotube as a function of tube radius. The results are obtained both by numerical solution of the ($2J+1$)-component radial Schrodinger equation and by developing an effective Hamiltonian to describe the splitting of a manifold of states of fixed angular momentum $J$ and number of phonons, $N$. For nanotube radius smaller than $\approx 3.5$ \AA, the confining potential has a parabolic shape and the results can be understood in terms of a simple toy model. For larger radius, the potential has the "Mexican hat" shape and therefore the H$_{2}$ molecule is off-centered, yielding radial and tangential translational dynamics in addition to rotational dynamics of H$_{2}$ molecule which we also describe by a simple model. Finally, we make several predictions for the the neutron scattering observation of various transitions between these levels.
Harris Brooks A.
Yildirim Taner
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