Manifestations of local supersolidity of ^{4}He around a charged molecular impurity

A frozen, solid helium core, dubbed a snowball, is typically observed around cations in liquid helium. Here we discover, using path integral simulations, that around a cationic molecular impurity, protonated methane, the ^{4}He atoms are indeed strongly localized akin to snowballs but still particip...

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Main Authors: Fabien Brieuc, Christoph Schran, Dominik Marx
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2023-10-01
Series:Physical Review Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.043083