Quasi-2D parahydrogen: On the verge of turning superfluid?
arXiv:2010.07192 · doi:10.1007/s10909-020-02548-6
Abstract
First principle computer simulations of a thin parahydrogen film adsorbed on a silica substrate at low temperature (below 6 K) yield no evidence that the top layer is liquid and/or in the proximity of a superfluid transition, as claimed in recent experimental work [T. Makiuchi et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 245301 (2019)]. Computed values of first and second layer completion densities are in quantitative agreement with experiment, but as observed also on other substrates, the top layer is an insulating crystal, quantum-mechanical exchanges of molecules are non-existent, and the overall physical behavior of the system can be understood largely along classical lines.
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