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Energy transfer (NeV) Energy transfer . (pev) Energy transfer (peV)<br />

Figure 17 .8 : High resolution spectra of acetamide at 3 temperatures : transition from methyl<br />

rotational tunnelling to classical jump reorientation .<br />

most simple molecule containing the biologically important peptide group .<br />

an especially nice example of Bohr's correspondance Principle .<br />

The transition is<br />

Here the question arises,<br />

why the tunnelling energy itself does not appear as activation<br />

energy. This is a remarquable consequence of the Pauli principle : with change of the spatial<br />

symmetry the spin state symmetry has to change too to conserve the symmetry of the total<br />

wave function. Thus A groundstate and E tunnel level show different total spin. The spinless<br />

phonons cannot induce this transition (spin conservation) . Thats the reason why the very small<br />

tunnel splittings are not smeared out at 1BT » hwt .<br />

Structural information<br />

Tunnel spectra of materials with many methyl groups may show many tunnelling transitions<br />

due to the different rotational potentials . Like in Raman spectroscopy conclusions may be<br />

drawn on structural properties as molecules per unit cell or site symmetries .<br />

17 .3.3 Multidimensional tunnelling<br />

Not always a rotation is a pure mode . It might couple to other degrees of freedom. Correspondingly<br />

the single particle model is no longer applicable . Well established is so far a combined<br />

rotation of the molecule and ils center of mass [11] . This type of dynamics is called rotationtranslation-coupling<br />

. It is a special case ofmany possible types ofmultidimensional tunnelling .<br />

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