http://arxiv.org/pdf/1109.4403
This reference is the underlying paper called Bose glass and Mott glass of quasiparticles in a doped quantum magnet On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > In our discussions to date, the question that has not yet been addressed > in detail is how fatigue cracks in cold fusion electrodes, nano-hairs on > the surface of micro-grains and pitting in the wire that Celani uses all > contribute to the cold fusion process. > > > This question revolves around the wave based quantum mechanical property > called Anderson localization. > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson_localization > > > What nature does in one instance, she can act in an opposite way in > another. > > For instants, the wave nature of a quantum particle can cause a quantum > mechanical phenomenon where a particle tunnels through a barrier that > classically it could not surmount. > > Anderson localization is the opposite quantum mechanical phenomenon where > a particle is fixed at a location that it classically should have no > problem in surmounting. > > Think of it this way: in our classical world, a helicopter can fly over a > mountain range without being disturbed by the underlying landscape, > provided that it flies higher than the highest mountain, or provided that > for the height at which it flies, there is a labyrinth of valleys allowing > it to cross the mountain chain. > > But in the quantum world, a "quantum helicopter" has a very good chance of > being unable to cross the chain, even if there is a percolating path of > valleys, and, in some situations, even if it has enough energy to fly over > the highest peak. And even more perplexing, the higher this quantum > helicopter flies the less chance it has to get over the mountain. > > What happens instead is that its quantum wave remains trapped, due to the > interference of the multiply reflected wave at the various mountain peaks. > And the lager the electron is, that is, the more energy it has, the more > likely the obstacles in its path will nail it to its original position; > this strange behavior gives rise to a phenomenon known as Anderson > localization. > > > Read more at: > http://phys.org/news/2012-09-broadens-quantum-mechanics.html#jCp > > When high energy electrons flow over a cracked, hairy, or pitted surface, > these electrons will pile up and accumulate because their large wave forms > are snagged by these surface imperfections. The bigger these quantum > particle wave forms are, the more likely that these particles will be > impaled and imprisoned by these surface imperfections. > > The same is true for proton cooper pairs that these imprisoned high energy > electrons produce via the Shukla-Eliasson effect. > > These cooper pairs first form a pile of stuff called a Bose glass. A Bose > glass is a disordered form of a Bose-Einstein condensate. When the > conditions become favorable, these localize pairs form a Bose-Einstein > condensate. > > In QM speak, these nonlinear bosonic matter waves can undergo a > localization-delocalization quantum phase transition in any spatial > dimension when the interaction strength is varied; the transition brings > the system from a non-interacting Anderson insulator to an interacting > superfluid. > > For the research that supports this new quantum mechanical interpretation > see > > > http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CB8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Fnature%2Fjournal%2Fv489%2Fn7416%2Ffull%2Fnature11406.html&ei=635iULfnNYTO0QHU8YDoDQ&usg=AFQjCNEFWcWRYj5-jhRJNdgy7xEmcrTgRQ&sig2=_-S22pviwufHLkkd99P9iA > > > > Cheers: axil >
