Neutron-Spectroscopic Evidence for Hydrogen Tunneling States in Niobium
- 6 April 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 46 (14), 947-950
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.46.947
Abstract
Inelastic neutron scattering measurements demonstrating H tunneling states for O-H pairs in Nb are presented. The tunneling matrix element found is 0.19±0.04 meV.
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