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@ARTICLE{Yachmenev:639388,
author = {Yachmenev, Andrey and Yang, Guang},
title = {{N}uclear spin symmetry breaking and spin polarization in
rotational energy level clusters},
journal = {Physical review research},
volume = {7},
number = {3},
issn = {2643-1564},
address = {College Park, MD},
publisher = {APS},
reportid = {PUBDB-2025-04482},
pages = {L032047},
year = {2025},
abstract = {We present the first quantum mechanical study of hyperfine
effects in the rotational cluster states of a symmetric
triatomic molecule H$_2$S. Rotational clusters arise from
spontaneous symmetry breaking induced by
high-angular-momentum rotational motions in certain rigid
molecules, resulting in dynamic enantiomorphism driven by
kinetic distortion effects. Hyperfine interactions in the
cluster states lead to collision-free breaking of nuclear
spin symmetry, with the magnitude of nuclear spin ortho-para
mixing significantly exceeding that in other states with
same or lower angular momentum. The ortho-para mixing
induces nuclear spin polarization in the laboratory frame
and gives rise to two sets of enantiomers, which have
different energies and oppositely oriented nuclear spin
projections. Although hyperfine interactions preserve
parity, they lift the degeneracy of opposite-parity cluster
states. This phenomenon, previously observed experimentally,
is explained as a result of tunneling between rotating
enantiomers, facilitated by the Pauli exclusion principle.},
cin = {FS-CFEL-CMI},
ddc = {530},
cid = {I:(DE-H253)FS-CFEL-CMI-20220405},
pnm = {632 - Materials – Quantum, Complex and Functional
Materials (POF4-632)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-632},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-MLZ)NOSPEC-20140101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
doi = {10.1103/k7nd-nnxg},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/639388},
}