HYDRIDE EXCHANGE VIA TWO-DIMENSIONAL VIBRATIONAL TUNNELING

摘要

We obtain analytic expressions for the zero temperature and finite temperature exchange interaction between two hard sphere fermions bound in a symmetric double-well potential in 1, 2, and 3 dimensions and discuss the effect of dimensionality on the model. The three-dimensional model (due to Zilm/Landesmann) and the two-dimensional model presented here are of relevance to the strongly temperature dependent exchange interaction that has been observed between hydrides bound in metal polyhydride complexes. (C) 1996 American Institute of Physics. [References: 11]