QUANTUM DIFFUSION OF MUONIUM IN AN INHOMOGENEOUS CRYSTAL

Authors
STORCHAK V BREWER JH HARDY WN KREITZMAN SR MORRIS GD
Citation
V. Storchak et al., QUANTUM DIFFUSION OF MUONIUM IN AN INHOMOGENEOUS CRYSTAL, Philosophical magazine. B. Physics of condensed matter. Structural, electronic, optical and magnetic properties, 72(2), 1995, pp. 233-240
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied
Journal title
Philosophical magazine. B. Physics of condensed matter. Structural, electronic, optical and magnetic properties → ACNP
ISSN journal
09586644
Volume
72
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
233 - 240
Database
ISI
SICI code
0958-6644(1995)72:2<233:QDOMIA>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
The tunnelling kinetics of muonium (Mu) atoms in solid nitrogen (s-N-1 4(2)) have been studied using the technique of Mu spin relaxation in w eak longitudinal magnetic fields. At low temperatures the results are inconsistent with diffusion models using a single correlation time tau (c). Spatial inhomogeneity of solid nitrogen crystals arising at low t emperatures results in a two-component behaviour of the muon polarizat ion function.