High-Temperature Expansion for the Orientational Specific Heat of Solid H2 and D2

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Berlinsky, A. John
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Terms up to order (Γ/kBT)5 in the high-temperature expansion of the orientational specific heat of ortho-para alloys of solid H2 or D2 are evaluated. Good agreement is obtained between theory and experiment using a Padé approximant and effective values of the quadrupolar coupling constant, Γeff/Γ0=0.83 for D2 and Γeff/Γ0=0.80 for H2, where Γ0 is the value for a rigid lattice. These values agree with other determinations of Γeff, whereas the T−2 approximation for the specific heat yields anomalously small values of Γeff.

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1970-03-01
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Physical Review A
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