“…The o-p conversion is closely related to the quest for efficient ways of the H 2 storage ( Ilisca, 2021 ), and therefore is being investigated not only on surfaces but also inside solids ( Lavrov and Weber, 2002 ; Hiller et al, 2007 ; Peng et al, 2009 ) and nano-cages ( Carravetta et al, 2004 ; Carravetta et al, 2006 ; Carravetta et al, 2007 ). Stimulated by the development of the experimental investigations, several conversion mechanisms have been also proposed depending on the interacting materials ( Yamakawa and Fukutani, 2020 ): the Wigner model ( Wigner, 1933 ), where the proton spin interacts with the inhomogeneous magnetic field generated by localized paramagnetic ions; the electron-spin-induced conversion models categorized into the second- ( Ilisca, 1991 ) and third-order ( Ilisca and Ghiglieno, 2016 ) perturbation theories, where the virtual electron exchange or transfer between H 2 and a surface is involved along with the Fermi contact interaction between an electron and a proton in H 2 ; the electric-field-induced conversion model ( Sugimoto and Fukutani, 2011 ), where the Stark, spin-orbit, and Fermi-contact couplings mix the ortho and para states.…”