Direct measurement of fast ortho-para conversion of molecularly chemisorbed H on Pd(210)

Pd(210)表面に化学吸着した水素分子の高速オルト-パラ転換の直接測定

植田 寛和   ; 笹川 裕矢*; Ivanov, D.*; 大野 哲*; 小倉 正平*; 福谷 克之

Ueta, Hirokazu; Sasakawa, Yuya*; Ivanov, D.*; Ono, Satoshi*; Ogura, Shohei*; Fukutani, Katsuyuki

Pd(210)表面に化学吸着したHのオルトーパラ転換を報告する。分子線,光刺激脱離,共鳴多光子イオン化法を用いて水素の回転状態変化を調べた。実験結果から、~2秒の転換時間で転換が起こることが明らかになった。実験結果と過去の理論計算結果を比較することで、2次の摂動による転換メカニズムを支持する。

Ortho-to-para conversion of molecularly chemisorbed H on a Pd(210) surface at a surface temperature of 50 K is reported. A combination of a pulsed molecular beam, photo-stimulated desorption and resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization techniques was used for probing the change in the rotational states of molecularly chemisorbed H on the surface. Our result shows that fast ortho-para conversion of chemisorbed H occurs. The conversion time was experimentally determined to be about 2 s, which is in good agreement with a previous theoretical calculation. This agreement supports that the ortho-para conversion mechanism of the molecularly chemisorbed H on Pd(210) is the two-step process based on the hyperfine-Coulomb excitation.