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Topic: Origin of splitting in potential enegy function for the inversion of ammonia  (Read 2940 times)

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Offline garthfluff

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Origin of splitting in potential enegy function for the inversion of ammonia
« on: November 03, 2009, 01:19:23 PM »
What causes the closely spaced pairs of lines in a graph of the inversion potential for ammonia?
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Re: Origin of splitting in potential enegy function for the inversion of ammonia
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2009, 01:21:04 PM »
Can you post the graph as an attachment, or give a URL?
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Re: Origin of splitting in potential enegy function for the inversion of ammonia
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2009, 01:34:14 PM »
Sure, Sorry. Should have probably done that in the first place. I have a feeling the splitting is a consequence of quantum tunneling, but I can't really see why.

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