The quantum diffusion of carbon in alfa-iron in low temperature

• Autorzy: Dąbrowski L. , Andreev A. , Georgiev M.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Recent experimental data on the diffusion coefficient of carbon in á-iron below liquid nitrogen temperature (LNT) question the classical approach to the observed temperature dependence. As the temperature is lowered below LNT, the diffusion constant tends to a nearly temperature-independent value rather than continuing its activated trend. The low temperature branch is apparently characteristic of a quantum mechanical process dominated by tunneling in ground state. Concomitantly we apply an occurrence-probability approach to describing the overall temperature dependence as a single continuous rate. Within the adiabatic approximation the electronic eigenvalue depending parametrically on the nuclear coordinates is taken to be the potential energy to control the motion of the nuclei. The resulting rate involves all horizontal-tunneling energy-conserving elastic transitions at the quantized energy levels of the migrating atom. A small though not negligible slope in the temperature dependence as the temperature is raised below 100 K is dealt with by complementing for the rate of a parallel one-phonon inelastic-tunneling process in excess to the basic elastic-tunneling rate. Our combined approach agrees well with the experimental data. In particular, the frequency of the coupled vibration is obtained virtually identical to the carbon vibrational frequency from inelastic neutron scattering data. The migrational barrier is also found to be within the limits expected for alfa-iron.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

carbon; diffusion; tunneling; adiabatic; polaron

• Wydawca: Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology
• Czasopismo: Nukleonika
• Rocznik: 2006
• Tom: Vol. 51, nr 2
• Strony: 93--99
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 14 poz., rys.

Twórcy

autor

Dąbrowski L.

autor

Andreev A.

autor

Georgiev M.

• Nuclear Methods of Solid State Physics Department, Institute of Atomic Energy, 05-400 Otwock-Świerk, Poland, Tel.: [phone], Fax: [phone],

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