Remarkable high pressure phase line of orientational order in solid hydrogen deuteride
- 6 December 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 71 (23) , 3814-3817
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.71.3814
Abstract
We have studied solid HD to pressures in excess of 100 GPa and to liquid helium temperatures. We have found the broken symmetry quantum phase transition of orientational order by means of Raman scattering. The pressure-temperature phase line has a very unusual reentrant behavior, different from the homonuclear isotopes when measured on the same time scale. The phase line is explained in terms of the rapid thermalization of rotational levels with changing temperature.Keywords
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