H and D Tunneling in Niobium
- 9 April 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 52 (15), 1308-1311
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.52.1308
Abstract
We performed low-temperature specific-heat measurements investigating tunneling of H and D trapped by O impurities in Nb. The results yield the first experimental values of tunneling matrix elements for both H and D in a metal.Keywords
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