Stable spin‐polarized atomic hydrogen
JUN 01, 1980
DOI: 10.1063/1.2914111
The strong attraction between hydrogen atoms of opposite electron spin would seem to make it impossible to have stable monatomic hydrogen gas, except in interstellar space. But the force between hydrogen atoms of parallel spin is predominantly repulsive. Isaac Silvera and Jook Walraven of the University of Amsterdam have taken advantage of the absence of bound states for spin‐polarized hydrogen to produce a monatomic hydrogen gas that showed no sign of reverting to ordinary
© 1980. American Institute of Physics
