Quantum behavior of water molecules confined to nanocavities in gemstones

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2015-2020

  Gorshunov, Boris P ^a,b,c   Zhukova, Elena S ^a,b,c   Torgashev, Victor I ^d   Lebedev, Vladimir V ^c,e   Shakurov, Gil'Man S ^f   Kremer, Reinhard K ^g   Pestrjakov, Efim V ^h   Thomas, Victor G ⁱ   Fursenko, Dimitry A ⁱ   Dressel, Martin ^b  

^a PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d SOUTHERN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e LANDAU INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^f ZAVOISKY PHYSICAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^h INSTITUTE OF LASER PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

ⁱ SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

confined water; nanocages; nanoporous material; quantum tunneling; terahertz spectroscopy; vibrational spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CONFINED WATER; LIBRATIONAL MOTIONS; MACROSCOPIC TUNNELING; NANO-POROUS MATERIALS; NANOCAGES; QUANTUM TUNNELING; QUANTUM-MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; TERAHERTZ SPECTRAL RANGE;

NANOPORES; POROUS MATERIALS; QUANTUM THEORY; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY; VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY;

MOLECULES;

EID: 84879742317     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz400782j     Document Type: Article

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