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Rotation-vibration transitions of methane molecules embedded in parahydrogen crystals were investigated through Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Each transition shows extremely sharp peaks with a Lorentzian line shape profile, which indicates the spectra are free from inhomogeneous broadening. The steep temperature dependence of the linewidths observed in the range between 3.7 and 8. 5 K is interpreted to be a result of the pure dephasing relaxation mechanism. A remarkable difference in population relaxation widths between stretching and bending vibrational excited states was also found.
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