Non Diffusive Mobility of Solid Hydrogen Films

K. G. Sukhatme, J. E. Rutledge, and P. Taborek

Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of California

Irvine, CA 92717





Abstract

We have used a `hole-burning' technique to study the mobility of thin solid films of H2 and D2 for temperatures between 1.6 K and 5 K. Even at low temperatures where transport through the vapor is negligible, the solid films remain mobile. The transport is thermally activated with an activation energy of 19 K for H2 and 38 K for D2. The time dependence of the regrowth shows that surface transport is not due to simple diffusion.


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