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Anomalous Ortho-to-Para Ratio of Nuclear Spin Isomers of H2O at Low Temperatures

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A theoretical model proposed for nuclear spin isomers of H2O molecules located inside the C60 fullerene explains an anomalously high stability of ortho-H2O isomers detected in the experiments reported in [B. Meier et al., Nature Commun. 6, 8112 (2015)] at a temperature of T = 5 K.

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to E.V. Podivilov and A.M. Shalagin for stimulating discussions.

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This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 17-12-01418).

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  1. Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    P. L. Chapovsky & A. A. Mamrashev

  2. Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    P. L. Chapovsky

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Russian Text © The Author(s), 2020, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Eksperimental’noi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, 2020, Vol. 111, No. 2, pp. 75–79.

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Chapovsky, P.L., Mamrashev, A.A. Anomalous Ortho-to-Para Ratio of Nuclear Spin Isomers of H2O at Low Temperatures. Jetp Lett. 111, 85–89 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S002136402002006X

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