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Fizika Nizkikh Temperatur, 2003, v. 29, Nos. 9/10 , p. 980–984
Orientational ordering in monolayers of ortho–para
hydrogen
V.B. Kokshenev
Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Caixa Postal 702, Belo Horizonte 30123-970, Minas Gerais, Brazil
E-mail: valery@fisica.ufmg.br
N.S. Sullivan
Physics Department, University of Florida, PO Box 118400, Gainesville, FL 32611-8400, USA
We discuss orientational ordering in monolayers of solid hydrogen in view of recent experimen-
tal findings in NMR studies of (ortho)c–(para)1–c-hydrogen mixtures on boron nitride substrate.
Analysis of the temperature-concentration behavior for the observed NMR frequency splitting is
given on the basis of a two-dimensional (J = 1)c–(J = 0)1–c-rotor model with the quadrupolar cou-
pling constant �0 = (0.50 � 0.03) K and the crystalline field amplitude V0 = (0.70 � 0.10) K de-
rived from experiment. The two distinct para-rotational short-range ordered structures are de-
scribed in terms of the local alignment and orientation of the polar principal axis, and are shown
to be due to the interplay between the positive and negative crystalline fields. It is shown that the
local structures observed below the 2D site-percolation threshold cp = 0.72 are rather different
from the ferromagnetic-type para-rotational ordering suggested earlier by Harris and Berlinsky.
PACS: 64.70.Kb, 81.30.Hd
1. Introduction
Careful studies at low temperatures of the thick
films (from 2 to 12 monolayers) [1,2] and monolayers
[2,3] of ortho-para hydrogen on boron nitride (BN)
substrates revealed at low ortho-H2 concentrations
new short-range frozen structures. Besides the ana-
logue of known [4–13] quadrupolar glass (QG) phase,
that emerges [2] in monolayers below the concentra-
tion cp = 0.72, which is apparently close to the
site-percolation threshold [14] in honeycomb lattice,
the uncommon para-rotational (PR) phases denomi-
nated by PR-A and PR-B phases were discovered
[2,3]. They are demarcated by a crossover temperature
T cx
(exp)( ) at which the NMR frequency splitting
passes through zero (see 2D diagram in Fig. 1). In-
stead of the Pa3 structure known in the bulk hydro-
gen, the herring bone (HB) and pinwheel (PW) 2D
long-range ordered structures have been the subject of
scientific interest since 1979, when Harris and
Berlinsky made their famous mean-field theory predic-
tions [15]. Meanwhile thorough experimental studies
on grafoil [16,17] and BN [2,3] substrates registered
only the PW orientational order at sufficiently high
concentrations, i.e. above the percolation limit cp.
Analysis is given within the scope of the site-disor-
dered microscopic 2D (J = 1)c–(J = 0)1–c-rotor
model, which is introduced on the basis of the 3D-ro-
tor analog developed earlier [18–21] for an indepth
study of the QG phase. We will give a microscopic ex-
planation of the observed temperature-concentration
behavior for the orientational local-order parameters
related to the NMR line shapes. We will show that the
PR-A and PR-B short-range correlated structures are
due to the interplay of the frustrated o-H2-molecular
exchange interaction with the molecule-substrate in-
teraction.
2. Microscopic description
Description of the orientational degrees of freedom
of the site-disordered ortho-para-hydrogen system
with pure electrostatic quadrupole-quadrupole
(EQQ) intermolecular interactions has been discussed
extensively within context of the 3D QG problem
[6,8,12,18]. In general, the thermodynamic rotational
states of a given ortho-molecule located at a site i are
characterized by the a second rank local tensor that
has only five independent components: the three prin-
cipal local axes (given by vector Li) , and the align-
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ment � i zi TJ /� � � �( � )1 3 22 and the eccentricity
�i xi yi TJ J� � � �� �2 2 defined with respect to L i axes.
(Here �J i stands for the angular-operator rotational
moment of a given ortho-molecule located [8] at site i,
and � �... T refers to a thermodynamic average at tem-
perature T.) A thermodynamic description, given in
terms of the local molecular fields
�i , and
�i conju-
gate to the local order parameters and extended by the
crystalline field hi can be introduced [18,19] on the
basis of the local-order-parameter fundamental equa-
tions, namely
�
�
� �
i
i
i i i
/ T
/ T h / T
� �
� �
1
3 3 2
2 3 2 3 2
cosh ( )
cosh ( ) exp [ ( ) ]
;
(1)
�
�
� �
i
i
i i i
/ T
/ T h / T
�
� �
3 3 2
2 3 2 3 2
sinh ( )
cosh ( ) exp [ ( ) ]
.
(2)
These equations follow from the conditions of local
equilibrium [10] and they are shown [19] to be con-
sistent with the density-matrix representation [7]. In
what follows, we restrict our consideration to a re-
duced set of local order parameters { , }L i i� with
�i � 0 that corresponds to the so-called «powder ap-
proximation» common [5] in NMR theory applica-
tions. This description ignores the local field
�i ,
conjugate to the local eccentricity �i , and Eqs. (1),
(2) (where
�i i� and
�i � 0) are therefore re-
duced to
1
1 2
3
2
�
�
� �
�
�
�
�
�
�
�
�
i
i
i ih
T
exp
( )
with
�i ij j j
j i
z
c� �
�
� J . (3)
Here the effective exchange interaction J ij and the
crystalline field hi are given by
J ij zi zjP L P L� �
3
2 0 20 20� ( ) ( ) and h V P Li zi�
2
3 0 20( ).
(4)
This reduced mean-field description formally follows
from the truncated 2D Hamiltonian given for N
quantum rotors with z neighbors placed in the plane,
namely
� � � �H c c h cN ij i j i j i i i
i
N
j i
z
i
N
� � �
���
��� J � � �
11
with � �� i ziJ� �1
3
2
2 . (5)
Here ci is a random occupation number whose mean,
given by the configurational average, is the concen-
tration: c ci c
� ; �Jzi is a z-projection of the angular
momentum operator in the local principal coordinate
system. In turn, �0 stands for the EQQ coupling con-
stant and V0 is the crystal-field amplitude;
P L /zi i20
23 1 2( ) ( cos )� �� where � i is the polar
angle of the principal molecular axis Lj .
In bulk hcp solid ortho-para-hydrogen the coupling
constant �0 and the amplitude V0 are well established
theoretically that is not the case of commensurate
3 3� solid monolayers. The magnitudes of
�0
2
0
56 25� Q / R( ) (Q is the molecular electrostatic
quadrupole moment and R0 is the nearest-neighbor
molecular separation) calculated for graphite and BN
substrates are 0.534 K [15] and 0.470 K [2], respec-
tively. The approximate estimates for the crystal-field
amplitude | |(exp)V0 � 0.6–0.8 K for grafoil [22] and
| |(exp)V0 � 0.6 K for BN [17] were derived from the ob-
served NMR line shapes. As seen from Fig. 1, the ex-
perimentally established position of the order-disorder
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Fig. 1. Phase diagram for site-disordered monolayers of
ortho-para-hydrogen (o-H2)c(p-H2)1–c mixtures. The sym-
bols refer to observed changes in the NMR line shapes re-
ported in the literature: crosses for hydrogen monolayers
on graphite, Ref. 16; open triangles for commensurate hy-
drogen monolayers on BN, Ref. 2. The solid symbols refer
to NMR studies of Ref. 2: solid circles, transitions to the
quadrupolar glass (QG) state; diamonds, transitions to
the hindered rotor (HR) state. The inverted triangles re-
fer to the vanishing of the small splitting of the NMR
lines in the para-rotational state. Insert: theoretical phase
diagram from Fig. 2 in Ref. 15; a and b are the tricritical
points [15], and c is the minimum in the observed PR-PW
transition temperatures.
boundary is consistent for the cases of grafoil [16] and
BN [2] substrates (shown by crosses and triangles in
Fig. 1, respectively). On the other hand, the PW–PR
boundary (restricted by points a and b in the insert of
Fig. 1) exists only for positive crystalline fields. These
yield the following fundamental model parameters
�0 0 50 0 03� �( . . ) K and V0 0 70 010� �( . . ) K (6)
in order to specify our estimations based on the 2D
( )J c� 1 – ( )J c� �0 1 -rotor model given in Eqs. (3)–(6).
3. Macroscopic description
The phase diagram for the pure J = 1 rotor system
on a 2D triangle solid lattice was scaled [15] by Harris
and Berlinsky in terms of the EQQ coupling constant
�0 and the crystal-field amplitude V0 of both signs
(see insert in Fig. 1). The PR phase was postulated by
a single ferromagnetic-type structure that can be given
as { , }� i i� �0 0� � . Moreover, one can see that equ-
ation for the PR alignment �0 obtained by minimi-
zation of the relevant free energy (see Eq. (17) in
Ref. 15) is equivalent to Eqs. (2)–(6) with adopted
z = 6,
�i � � �0 0 09� , J ij /� �3 20� and h hi � �0
� 2 30V / that corresponds to a ferrorotational-type
(FR type) local-structure given by � �i j� � 0 and
� �i � 0.
A description for the long-range orientationally
disordered, but locally correlated PR-A phase is intro-
duced through the short-range order parameter
� �A i c
PRAc T T( , ) ( ) ( )� � � , where a configurational ave-
rage is limited by the temperature-concentration PR-A
region shown in Fig. 1. Application of this average
procedure to both the sides of Eq. (4) can be presented
in the following form, namely
PR-A:
1
1 2
3
2
9
8
0 1 1 2
2�
�
� � �
��
�
�
�
�
� �
�
�
�
�
�
�
�
�
�
A
A
A A AV
T T T
exp
�
�
�
�
�
�
�
.
(7)
Unlike the case of the QG, we assume here that fluc-
tuations of the local alignment (or the
quadrupolarization) are small. The same is referred to
the crystalline field given by the mean h V /A1 02 3� .
The local fluctuations of the molecular field are intro-
duced through the mean
�1 1
5 2
A A
/
Azc� J (with
J1 1 03 2A A /� � � � and with z = 6) and the variance
�2
2
2
4 2 2 23 1 1 8A A Azc c / T� � �J ( )( ) , and are esti-
mated* within the Gaussian distribution justified in
Ref. 19). With account of the Zeeman-field local po-
larization effects [18] given by the mean
�
� �1 2
2 21A A A Azc /T� � �J ( ) , we have analyzed** a
concentration behavior of the observed [22] NMR fre-
quency splitting given in Fig. 8 in Ref. 2 for T =
= 0.65 K and T = 0.546 K. Analysis is given with the
help of Eqs. (2)–(6) where the polar-principal-axis
correlation parameters �1A and �2A, namely
�1 20 20A zi zj c
PRA
P L P L� ( ) ( )
( )
and �2 20
2
20
2
A zi zj
c
PRA
P L P L� ( ) ( )
( )
(8)
are treated as fitting parameters. In the particular
cases of the FR type (� �i j� � 0) and AFR type
(� i � 0, � j /� 2) locally correlated structures are
characterized by � �1 2 1� � and � �1 2 1 2� � � � / , re-
spectively. For the PR-A phase we have derived [23]
�1 1 3A /(exp) � � and �2 0 75A
(exp) .� . This local structure is
in a way similar to that in the PW phase modified
by orientations of in-plane rotors which show out-
of-plane orientations.
As seen from Fig. 1, the long-range disordered
PR-B phase is stable at low temperatures (T < V0)
and low concentrations (c cp! ) where the site-dilu-
tion effects are expected to be more pronounced than
in the PR-A phase. The short-range orientational ar-
rangement results from the interplay between the ran-
dom EQQ coupling and the random negative crystal-
line fields. Adopting for the latter a Gaussian
distribution, and taking into account its variance h2B
(with the mean h V /B1 02 3� ) one finds, after elabora-
tion of the configurational average in Eq. (3), the ef-
fective amplitude of the crystalline field can be intro-
duced as
V c T V
T c
T
x( , )
( )(exp)
� �
�
�
�
�
�
�
�
�0 1 for T T cx� (exp)( ) . (9)
Here T cx
(exp)( ) is a crossover temperature between
the PR-A and the PR-B structures that provides a re-
construction of the local order from � A c T(exp)( , ) " 0 to
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* One can show that for the Gaussian average exp( ) exp[ ( ) ]� � � �ax ax ax /
G 1 2
2 2 is true for a random value x with
mean x1 and variance x2.
** The observable quadrupolarization is introduced by the relation | ( , )| ( , )(exp)� #c T c T / d� 3 where # is the NMR frequency
splitting and d = 57.67 kHz.
�B c T(exp)( , ) ! 0 (shown by dashed line in Fig. 1).
The explicit form in Eq. (9) follows from h B2 �
� � � �( ) ( )( )$h V T /i c
PRB /
x
/2 1 2
0
1 22 2 3 where Tx is ap-
proximated by the observed PRA–PRB boundary. An
analysis of the observed PR-B quadrupolarization �B
is given through averaged Eq. (9), namely
PR-B:
ln
( )(exp)1
1 2
1
9
0
2
�
�
�
�
��
�
�
�� � �
�
�
�
�
�
�
�
�
�
�
�
�
�
B
B
x
B
V
T
T c
T
�0
2
21 0
T
c B B
�
�
�
�
�
� � �� �( ) . (10)
Treating the PR-B phase as a precursor of the 2D QG
phase, we have omitted in Eq. (10) all molecu-
lar-field local ordering effects. Similar to the QG
case, we have therefore adopted � � �
�
i c
PRB
B
( )
1 em-
ployed in Eq. (7) for the PR-A phase. Analysis of the
available experimental data for c = 0.44 (with
Tx
(exp) � 1.64 K, see Fig. 12 of Ref. 2) on temperature
dependence of the short-range orientational order pa-
rameter in the PR-B given with the help of Eq. (5)
results [23] in, approximately, �1 0B � , �2 1B � , that
in a way is characteristic for the QG local order.
The observed order parameters � A
(exp) and �B
(exp)
vanish at a certain crossover temperature T cx( ) associ-
ated with the PRA-PRB boundary T cx
(exp)( ) (shown
by the dashed line Fig. 1). For concentrations c cp% ,
this boundary can be therefore deduced from the con-
ditions � �A x B xc T c T( , ) ( , )� � 0. To satisfy the
boundary observation conditions, the interplay be-
tween the fluctuating crystalline and Zeeman-type
molecular fields for T T Tx0 ! % is made implicit
in the form 8 9 00 0 2
2V T T c T( ) ( , )� � �
, where T0 �
� 9 82
2
0h / V plays a role of Tx when the competing fluc-
tuations the EQQ field are ignored. The variance
h2 was studied [20] in detail for the 3D disordered PR
phase in o-p-H2 systems for temperatures 0.80 K < T <
< 4.9 K. As seen from the right insert in Fig. 2, unlike
the mean of the crystal-field h D
1
3( ), its variance de-
pends strongly on the overall concentration, i.e.,
h c c cD
M2
3( ) & �( ) and disappears at the highest con-
centration for the 3D QG state, cM = 0.55 (for the 3D
phase diagram see Fig. 2 in Ref. 19 ). In the 2D case
cM is very close to the threshold concentration cp.
Therefore, we adopt V c c cp2 & �( ) that reduces the
aforegiven boundary observation condition to the fol-
lowing cubic equation
T T c T
c c
Vx x
3
0
2
2 0
4
0
3
2
1
2
� � �
�
�
�
�
�
�
( )
( )
� � = 0 (11)
with T V
c
c
c
cp p
0 0
2
8 1� �
�
�
�
�
�
�
�
�
�
�
�
�
�
�
�
' .
Treating ' as an adjustable parameter characterizing a
scale of the crystal-field fluctuations, we analyze in
Fig. 2 the physical solution Tx of Eq. (11) by com-
paring it with the observed PRA–PRB boundary.
Taking into account the above analysis for PR-B and
PR-A phases, we adopt �2 � 1 as a typical value. As
seen from Fig. 2, the idea that the disordered PRB
phase is constructed from mostly disordered
«in-plane» rotors is corroborated by experimental ob-
servations [2]. On the other hand, our consideration
of the reduced orientational degrees of freedom fails
to give quantitative descriptions above c = 0.45. The
unphysical value �2 " 1 deduced from experimental
data in Fig. 2 signals the existence of ignored local
order parameters (e.g. q� �� 2), which (similar to
the case of the 3D QG given in Eq. (6) in Ref. 18)
can play an appreciable role near the crossover tem-
perature. A complete analysis should be given beyond
the «powder approximation» and based on fundamen-
tal order-parameter Eqs. (1), (2) given for both the
local alignment and the eccentricity.
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Fig. 2. Pararotational A–B crossover temperature against
concentration. The symbols refer to the experimental
points represented in Fig. 1: solid inverted triangles, van-
ishing of NMR doublet, Ref. 2; open triangles, onset of
PW state in the anomalous upturn region of the phase
transition boundary, Ref. 2. The lines designate solutions
of Eq. (6) for an adjustable parameter ' � 23. . Other pa-
rameters shown include the fitting parameter �2. Insert:
left; concentration dependence of the effective crystalline
field at distinct temperatures derived from experiment [2]
using Eq. (9); right, the variance of the crystalline field
in bulk ortho-para-H2 (squares, from insert in Fig. 5 of
Ref. 20).
4. Conclusions
We have discussed the short-range orientationally
correlated structures discovered [2,3] in monolayers of
(o-H2)c–(p-H2)1–c on BN substrate. Analysis of the
temperature-concentration behavior for the observed
NMR line shapes, related to the short-range order
parameter �( , )c T is given on the basis of the 2D
(J = 1)c–(J = 0)1–c-rotor model, for which a 3D ana-
log was employed earlier [18,19] for the QG problem.
In the current study the focus is on the nearest-neigh-
bor correlated structures observed by the NMR spec-
troscopy in the orientationally disordered phases
(shown in Fig. 1). In spite of the fact that fundamen-
tal order-parameter equations are consistent with the
corresponding Eq. (17) in Ref. 15, the observed PR-A
and the PR-B structures are rather «antiferromag-
netic» than «ferromagnetic» as suggested in Ref. 15
for a unique PR phase. This conclusion follows from
our analysis of the observed [2,3] macroscopic quad-
rupolarizations � A c T( , ) and �B c T( , ) adjusted
through the polar-axis correlation parameters given in
Eq. (8). We have shown that the short-range corre-
lated PR-A phase is driven by positive crystalline
fields, for which thermal and spatial fluctuations
overwhelm those of the short-range EQQ interactions.
With decreasing temperature, the interplay between
the EQQ coupling and the crystalline fields, which
are both sensitive to the site-dilution and thermal-
fluctuation effects, results in the PRA–PRB boundary
T cx
(exp)( ), along which both the quadrupolarizations
are zero (see analysis in Fig. 2). The low-temperature
PR phase, denominated as the PR-B phase, is driven
by negative crystalline field given near the boundary
Tx
(exp) in Eq. (9). Similar to the case of the QG phase
(see Fig. 4 in [19]), this phase is expected to be richer
than the PR-A phase, and more order parameters are
therefore needed to give a complete description of the
observed �B c T(exp)( , ). Unfortunately, this data (such
as on $q T TB i i c
PRB� � � �� �2 2( ) ( ) ( ) is at present time
not available experimentally.
Acknowledgments
The authors acknowledge financial support by the
CNPq (V.B.K.) and by the NSF-DMR-98 (N.S.S.).
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