Garberoglio, G.
and Harvey, A.
(2025),
First-Principles Calculation of ortho-para Effects in the Second Virial Coefficients of H2 and D2 at Low Temperatures, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, [online], https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.5c04224, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=960106
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First-Principles Calculation of ortho-para Effects in the Second Virial Coefficients of H2 and D2 at Low Temperatures
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Giovanni Garberoglio,
Abstract
We report ab initio calculations of the second virial coefficient B(T) of hydrogen isotopologues in the rigid-rotor approximation using the path-integral Monte Carlo method. We present a novel method for efficient sampling of rotational degrees of freedom based on Doob's h-transform that can be used with any spin isomer, including those for which the quantum mechanical propagator in imaginary time is negative, e.g., ortho-H2. Additionally, we extend the theory to evaluate the contribution to B(T) due to quantum statistical effects, relevant at low temperatures. This allows us to compute the difference in B(T) between para-H2 and normal H2; our calculation of this difference near 20 K is in qualitative agreement with the only available experimental measurements.Citation
Journal of Physical Chemistry A
Volume
129
Issue
36
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cryogenics, hydrogen, spin isomers, virial coefficients
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Created September 11, 2025