Scientists find unsuspected spectroscopy rules for rattling hydrogen
Thursday, January 8, 2015 - 08:30
in Physics & Chemistry
It has been taken for granted for over 50 years that the type of spectroscopy widely used to study hydrogen inside materials is not subject to any selection rules. In the joint theoretical and experimental study that appeared recently in the journal Physical Review Letters, an international team of researchers led by Zlatko Bačić, a professor of chemistry at NYU, showed that this near universally held view is incorrect for at least one important class of hydrogen-entrapping compounds, by confirming experimentally the validity of the selection rule formulated in 2013 by the Bačić group.