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Hindered Rotation Of Dihydrogen On Synthesized Metal Oxides, George Houston Rouvelas Aug 2013

Hindered Rotation Of Dihydrogen On Synthesized Metal Oxides, George Houston Rouvelas

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A MATLAB program was written to calculate the hindered rotational energies of the hydrogen and deuterium molecules interacting with an anisotropic potential, which may be thought of as a potential energy surface of a metal oxide substrate. It was found that an increase in the hindering potential of the rotation about the azimuthal angle lifted the degeneracy of the j = 1,mj [magnetic quantum number] = plus or minus 1 states. A better understanding of how the rotational states of these systems change as a function of the hindering potential can help to explain features in rotational inelastic neutron scattering …