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Transition-state lattice modes and the breakdown of adiabatic tunneling for hydrogen and deuterium in bcc Nb

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23212v1
Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 04:03:21 GMT
Title: Transition-state lattice modes and the breakdown of adiabatic tunneling for hydrogen and deuterium in bcc Nb
Abstract summary: Interstitial hydrogen and deuterium in body-centered-cubic metals constitute archetypal quantum tunneling systems.<n>Existing theoretical treatments invoke an adiabatic separation between the light interstitial and the host lattice.<n>We show that experimentally measured tunnel splittings of O-trapped H and D in bcc Nb are quantitatively reproduced only within a five-dimensional (5D) Lattice-Renormalized Born-Oppenheimer framework.
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Abstract: Interstitial hydrogen and deuterium in body-centered-cubic metals constitute archetypal quantum tunneling systems. Their relevance has been renewed by the connection between hydrogenic tunneling in Nb and defect-induced decoherence in superconducting qubits, motivating a predictive microscopic theory. Existing theoretical treatments invoke an adiabatic separation between the light interstitial and the host lattice, an assumption whose validity has not been rigorously established for hydrogenic species. Here, we show that the experimentally measured tunnel splittings of O-trapped H and D in bcc Nb are quantitatively reproduced only within a five-dimensional (5D) Lattice-Renormalized Born-Oppenheimer (LRBO) framework. This approach treats three interstitial modes and two judiciously selected lattice modes, which includes a transition-state mode, on equal quantum footing. By recasting nested Born-Oppenheimer hierarchies within this same formalism and benchmarking against modern \textit{ab initio} potential energy surfaces, we show that adiabatic separation of the light particle from lattice dynamics is satisfied only in the positive-muon ($μ^{+}$) mass limit. In contrast, tunneling for H and D is fundamentally a collective, nonadiabatic process mediated by anharmonic lattice couplings. Finally, we show that the breakdown of adiabaticity can be anticipated from simple energy estimates involving the ground-state light-particle energy evaluated at a small number of fixed lattice configurations, providing a practical criterion for assessing the validity of adiabatic tunneling theories in other systems.

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