Abstract
The effective protonic potential for the ionic defect H3O+ has been calculated in an ice-like system as a function of the displacement of neighboring lattice sites. The symmetry and shift of the double minimum potential are related to the proton—phonon coupling. The coupling is found to be strong. This indicates that low order perturbation theory can not be applied to the study of protonic motion in hydrogen bonded systems.
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