Very interesting observation, Frank.
Don't forget Horace's model of a deflated species. or the Dufour "hydrex" and there are others. Robin has a 'faux D' . and "deuterium clusters" are not far off - it would be informative to try to get together a complete listing with emphasis on the likenesses and differences. We kind of like . err . looking at shadows on the cave wall, or whatever that metaphor is. . and the Caltech paper is provocative. This is all coming together From: Frank On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:21:44 -0800 Jones Beene said [snip] OK. Many of us are now using f/H to mean "generic fractional hydrogen", since Mills has trademarked the 'Hydrino' name, and is now trying to enforce the (tm), but in any event RM did not get the theory precisely correct, so how about this - ta-da: The "f/Husor" ? [end snip] Researchers a Rose by any other name. What Kitamura, A., et al refer to as "anomalously large isotope effect" what Arata /Zhang calls "pycnodeuterium", what Mills is calling a "hydrino" Caltech "one-dimensional atom" generic "fractional state hydrogen" Naudts (full integer equations) "relativistic hydrogen." Does what Caltech calls a "one-dimensional atom" belong on the above list? Cavity QED with squeezed vacuum http://www.its.caltech.edu/~qoptics/squeeze.html The excitation of an atom by squeezed or other nonclassical radiation should give rise to fundamentally new radiative processes. For example, since radiative decay widths and level shifts of atoms are associated with the statistical properties of the vacuum ("vacuum fluctuations"), then an atom in a squeezed vacuum should not have a single relaxation rate, but rather two rates associated with the enhanced and diminished fluctuations of a squeezed state relative to the vacuum state. In an experiment <http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v58/i5/p4056_1> conducted by our group, this phase sensitivity due to the squeezed vacuum was in fact observed. Squeezed vacuum states, created with an optical parametric oscillator, were coupled to the atom with high efficiency. This efficient atom-vacuum coupling, essential to the experiment, was achieved through the techniques of cavity QED: by coupling the atom strongly to the fundamental mode of a high-finesse optical cavity, a "one-dimensional atom" was created. Regards Fran
