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Title Anomalous neutron Compton scattering cross sections in ammonium hexachlorometallates
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Abstract The authors have performed neutron Compton scattering measurements on ammonium hexachloropalladate (NH4)2PdCl6 and ammonium hexachlorotellurate (NH4)2TeCl 6. Both substances belong to the family of ammonium metallates. The aim of the experiment was to investigate the possible role of electronic environment of a proton on the anomaly of the neutron scattering intensity. The quantity of interest that was subject to experimental test was the reduction factor of the neutron scattering intensities. In both samples, the reduction factor was found to be smaller than unity, thus indicating the anomalous neutron Compton scattering from protons. Interestingly, the anomaly decreases with decreasing scattering angle and disappears at the lowest scattering angle (longest scattering time). The dependence of the amount of the anomaly on the scattering angle (scattering time) is the same in both substances (within experimental error). Also, the measured widths of proton momentum distributions are equal in both metallates. This is consistent with the fact that the attosecond proton dynamics of ammonium cations is fairly well decoupled from the dynamics of the sublattice of the octahedral anions PdCl62- and TeCl6 2-, respectively. The hypothesis is put forward that proton-electron decoherence processes are responsible for the considered effect. Decoherence processes may have to do rather with the direct electronic environment of ammonium protons and not with the electronic structure of the metal-chlorine bond
Organisation CCLRC , ISIS-VESUVIO
Keywords Physics
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Journal Article Oncogene 126, no. 12 (2007): 124501. doi:10.1063/1.2673053 2007