http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0009261417301641
This is an interesting abstract - "Quantum controlled fusion." It concerns hot fusion done on an extremely small scale using a laser, about the same footprint as the Holmlid work. In fact it is very similar to Holmlid in a lot of ways but they expect hot fusion. Holmlid apparently gets muons and some hot fusion but mostly muons.
The paper is behind a pay wall. It is said to describe a process by which atoms can be forced close enough to fuse using *shaped laser pulses*. The technique behind this is being called femtochemistry, which is an approach to overcome the Coulomb barrier the easy way, exactly as in LENR.
That sounds too much like LENR not to even mention the similarity - and it suggests the authors are novices in the fusion arena. So far it is modeling and some experimenting with pulse shaping to determine what will work best at the atomic level. But "getting beyond the mathematics of the idea will require significant time and money investments"... is how they leave it. They got that right.
OTOH one could replicate what Holmlid has actually done, and take it from there - with the benefit of pulse shaping. The authors were into protein folding, nanostructures, and biological phenomena but they may have something valuable to offer the fusion community with pulse shaping.
I am looking at this from the perspective of broadening the Holmlid effect. If anyone finds the entire paper to download or understands pulse shaping - please post the citation.
