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Quantum dynamics calculation, performed on top of density functional theory (DFT)-based total energy calculations, show dynamical quantum filtering via enhanced scattering of para-H on SrTiO(001). We attribute this to the strongly orientation-dependent (electrostatic) interaction potential between the H (induced) quadrupole moment and the surface electric field gradient of ionic SrTiO(001). These results suggest that ionic surfaces could function as a scattering/filtering media to realize rotationally state-resolved H. This could find significant applications not only in H storage and transport, but also in realizing materials with pre-determined characteristic properties.
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Materials DX Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba Central 2, 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan.
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University of Delaware, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA.
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Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität zu Köln, Zülpicher Straße 77, 50937 Cologne, Germany.
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