Temperature effect on ultra-confined water in beryl, “quantum to classical” transition

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Recently, we investigated dynamics of water in beryl, the structure of which contains 5 A diameter channels along the c-axis. INS spectra revealed that effective potential for water along the channels was significantly steeper than perpendicular. The observed 7 peaks (E=0.25 to 15meV) at T=1.5K were explained assuming water quantum rotation-translation tunneling across the channels. DINS study of beryl at T=4.3K showed narrow, anisotropic water proton momentum distribution with corresponding kinetic energy, Ek=95meV, which is much less than was previously observed in bulk water (~150 meV). We believe that the exceptionally small Ek in beryl is a result of water tunneling. In this proposal we would like to do DINS for beryl at T=45 and 260 K, where water does not tunnel anymore (should be more ¿classical¿), and for this we need 8 days at VESUVIO.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.61785327
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Creator Dr Lawrence Anovitz; Dr Timothy Prisk; Professor George Reiter; Dr Alexander Kolesnikov; Dr Eugene Mamontov; Dr Matthew Krzystyniak
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2018
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2015-06-23T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-07-01T08:00:00Z