Collective dynamics of hydrogen atoms in the KIO₃*HIO₃ crystal dictated by a substructure of the hydrogen atoms' matter waves

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The behavior of the subsystem of hydrogen atoms of the KIO₃*HIO₃ crystal, whose IR absorption spectra exhibit equidistant submaximums in the vicinity of the maximums in the frequency range of stretching and bending vibrations of OH bonds, is studied in the present work. It is shown that hydrogen atoms co-operate in peculiar clusters in which, however, the hydrogen atoms do not move from their equilibrium positions, but become to vibrate synchronously. The interaction between the hydrogen atoms is associated with the overlapping of their matter waves, or more exactly, the waves' substructure, a very light quasi-particles called inertons, which play the basic role in submicroscopic quantum mechanics that has recently been constructed by the author. The number of atoms, which compose the cluster, is calculated.