The wild card in all of this - as it might apply to LENR is not finding
bulk superconductivity per se in an active lattice- or a bulk Meissner
effect. That is not needed.
Instead the important detail is to be found in local effects at small
geometries ... which might appear to be operating in the size range
associated with excitonics or qubits. The well-known "aromatic
ring-current" phenomenon, operating around a benzene ring would be an
example which is seen with Mizuno's phenanthrene, for instance. There is
no bulk superconductivity but the device could operate by producing
dense hydrogen due to the current.
The bulk material can appear to be ferrimagnetic instead of diamagnetic
and semiconducting instead of superconductive. However, tiny domains in
the active lattice or catalyst - which are superconductive locally could
be instrumental in the densification of hydrogen, but in a way which is
different or complementary to Mills theory.
These active domains also influence each other, and carry spin
information - thus they can be called exciton-qubits but the "hole"
could be a real proton ... and thus not really a true quasiparticle. One
decay of the qubit, we have the formation of UDH.
Here is an interesting paper which could point the way to such a scenario -
https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.4446
"A protected vortex exciton qubit" by Suvabrata De, Tim Spiller
(Submitted on 17 May 2014)
Brian Ahern wrote:
How ferromagnetism arises from specific molecular orbitals is little
known, because antibonding orbitals control the process. The magnetic
anomalies above 11K for PdH - PdD are not Meisner transitions and are
unrelated to the supercurrents.
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*From:* Axil Axil
I found another paper on Palladium/hydrogen superconductivity
Sorry I am so late
http://www.redalyc.org/pdf/464/46434607.pdf
Magnetic and Transport Properties of PdH - Redalyc
<http://www.redalyc.org/pdf/464/46434607.pdf>
www.redalyc.org
Brazilian Journal of Physics, vol. 34, no. 3B, September, 2004 1177
Magnetic and Transport Properties of PdH: Intriguing Superconductive
Observations¤
Magnetic and Transport Properties of PdH: Intriguing Superconductive
Observations
Jones Beene wrote:
Hi Mark,
Your quotes from the citation brings to mind the mystery
connection to HTSC (high temperature superconductivity).
Since the early days there was thought to be some kind of vague
and undefined connection between LENR and HTSC. This is due
primarily to the fact that palladium hydride is superconductive
but palladium isn't. The quote you mentioned adds an explanation
in the form of lattice vibrations. The problem is the transition
temperature.
BTW - for those who are not aware of the history of this - Brian
Ahern (who was a USAF researcher at the time, specializing in SC)
independently discovered Pd-H superconductivity many years ago -
only to find that it had already been reported by someone else
(and patented). It is still ignored as a factor for gain in "cold
fusion" due to the aforementioned problem of transition
temperature. This is probably one of the details that got Brian
hooked on LENR - even before P&F and he also discovered that an
alloy of nickel and palladium performs much better than palladium
alone for excess heat.
For the heck of it, I did a quicky search to see if "nickel
hydride" has ever been reported with SC properties. This begs to
be part of the LENR-CANR library even if the rationale between
LENR and HTSC is foggy.
As it turns out - W-L also picked up on the cross-connection and
found the same citation I found:
*Superconductivity in the palladium-hydrogen and
palladium-nickel-hydrogen systems**
**Authors* - First published: 16 June 1972 by
T. Skoskiewicz
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pssa.2210110253/abstract
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pssa.2210110253/abstract>
The paper is a poor scan, I am trying to find a digital version.
This is almost 45 years old ! Why is it seldom mentioned?
This is a fine blog article from EM Smith on the situation (which
I had read but forgot), It is worth a reread.
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2015/05/24/widom-larsen-superconducting-hydrides-and-directed-speculation/
<https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2015/05/24/widom-larsen-superconducting-hydrides-and-directed-speculation/>
MarkI-ZeroPoint wrote:
Vorts,
Haven’t had time to do much sci-surfing in 2016, but as is quite
common in my life, when I get a nagging feeling to do it, I come
across stuff that could be very significant…
Happened to go to physorg.com <http://physorg.com> today when
eating lunch at work and came across this article:
“Laser pulses help scientists tease apart complex electron
interactions”
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-laser-pulses-scientists-complex-electron.html
<http://phys.org/news/2016-12-laser-pulses-scientists-complex-electron.html>
Title doesn’t really sound all that breakthrough, but for some
reason I clicked on it and came across what could be the
mechanism of action in LENR reactions which gently sheds the
energy to the lattice instead of ejecting high-energy particles,
i.e., the ‘expected’ mechanism. To quote the article:
“But they also discovered another, unexpected signal-which they
say represents a distinct form of _extremely efficientenergy loss
<http://phys.org/tags/energy+loss/>at a particular energy level
and timescale_ between the other two.
"We see a very strong and peculiar interaction between the
excited electrons and the lattice where the _electrons are losing
most of their energy very rapidly in a coherent, non-random
way_," Rameau said. At this special energy level, he explained,
_the electrons appear to be interacting with lattice atoms all
vibrating at a particular frequency-like a tuning fork emitting a
single note_. When all of the electrons that have the energy
required for this unique interaction have given up most of their
energy, they start to cool down more slowly by hitting atoms more
randomly without striking the "resonant" frequency, he said.
"We know now that this interaction doesn't just switch on when
the material becomes a superconductor; it's actually always there,"
Although electron-based and not nucleus-based, it still makes me
wonder if this is one step in a multi-step process of energy
transfer… nucleus to electrons to lattice.
It is in a very narrow energy range, and is obviously some kind
of resonance (coherent) condition… which also explains why it’s
so hard to reproduce. Wonder if the narrow energy kink is
anywhere close to _FrankZ_’s 1.094Mhz-meter?
BTW, the research also used a setup which I’ve been ranting about
for years… the electron stroboscope.
"By varying the time between the 'pump' and 'probe' laser pulses
we can build up a stroboscopic record of what happens - a movie
of what this material looks like from rest through the violent
interaction to how it settles back down,"
Merry Christmas to All,
-mark iverson
