SPECTROSCOPIC EVIDENCE OF A PHASE CHANGE IN SOLID NORMAL HYDROGEN NEAR $1.4^{\circ}K$.
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1965
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Ohio State University
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The infrared fundamental band of solid normal hydrogen has been investigated over the temperature range 1.3 to $1.7^{\circ}K$. Two features in the spectrum, the $S_{1}(0)$ line and the $S_{1}(1)$ line, vanish at a temperature of about $1.4^{\circ}K$ when the crystal is cooled. The features reappear at about $1.6^{\circ}K$ when the crystal is warmed. The temperature at which the transition takes place upon warming is close to the $\lambda$-a***omaly in the specific heat. The vanishing of the two spectral features can be explained if one assumes a phase transition to a crystal structure possessing inversion symmetry.
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Author Institution: Department of Physics, The University of Toronto