Collective rotational tunneling of methyl groups and quantum solitons in 4-methylpyridine: Neutron scattering studies of single crystals

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 22, 2003, Pages

  Fillaux, François ^a   Nicolaï, Béatrice ^a   Paulus, Werner ^b   Kaiser Morris, Erika ^a   Cousson, Alain ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYL GROUP; PICOLINE; PYRIDINE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DYNAMICS; ENERGY; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; NEUTRON SCATTERING; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OSCILLATION; QUANTUM THEORY; ROTATION;

EID: 0742287783     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.68.224301     Document Type: Article

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