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One of the "hottest" cold topics these days in condensed matter research is
the "heavy fermion". Heavy fermion superconductivity normally occurs at very low
temperature, but perhaps it does not require pure cryogenics, and perhaps it
can also occur (even more robustly) at high effective pressure, but
less-cold actual temperature.
The term "heavy fermion" is used in condensed matter physics to describe
metallic materials having very large electronic mass enhancement arising from an
antiferromagnetic interaction between conduction electrons and local magnetic
moments residing on a sublattice of atoms in the metal.
Now to me that sounds a LOT like what is going on in some kinds of LENR.
Antiferromagnetic interaction is often seen in hydrogen bonded structures.
Is this observation on an overlap into LENR only an over-generalization of
heavy fermion dynamics, or are those guys in total denial of the extent of their
work ?
Plus this could be the hydrogen correlate of BEC-like deuterium
fusion. Plenty of studies have found excess heat anomalies in palladium using
hydrogen, as well as deuterium, even though the pathways may be slightly
different. Given that the deuteron has both bosonic properties (its nucleus) and
fermionic properties (the whole atom), we could be breaching some interesting
new approaches to LENR. And there is little doubt among many
open-minded observers that there is some connection between high
temperature superconductivity and LENR effects.
In the Dec. 16 issue of "Nature", a team of physicists from Rice and
elsewhere (Richard should be pleased to see Rice in the news) offers an
explanation of the way quantum effects could create some of these strange
properties that in heavy fermion materials. I think that they are just
scratching the surface of a very "heavy" sub-field.
"Our findings represent a clear-cut advance in the understanding of the
electron's organizing principle in quantum-critical matters," said theoretical
physics Qimiao Si, a paper co-author "The work could be important to the
physics of a broad range of materials, including high-temperature
superconductors and carbon nanotubes.
Note: The good professor Si somehow failed to mention LENR in that "broad
range.". Imagine that ! A physics professor who once again overlooks
LENR....
The new research reported in "Nature" bolsters the growing theoretical and
experimental work in a new subfield of condensed matter physics known as
"correlated electron physics." The impetus for correlated electron physics
is the fact that the standard theory of metals cannot explain the electronic
workings of materials that contain "correlated," or strongly interacting
electrons.
Sounds to me like they are coming at the whole phenomenon of the Hydrino
and BEC-like fusion, a.k.a. LENR, from another perspective, and blindly one must
add....
Oh well, Rice's loss could be the "cold fusioneers" gain. But then again,
once someone in the marginalized LENR camp does prove the certain reality
of LENR (it has already been proven many times over, all that is lacking
now is a self-powered demo, the *undeniable* proof) then at that point, it
should surprise no one if some of these professorial-types don't immediately
jump out of the wood-work claiming to have known it all along. A few of them are
no doubt even deep-closet lurkers on vortex (who may have enlisted their lowest
performing grad student to sign up with Bill B, so as to remain anonymous until
the proper time ....
Jones
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