RE: the discussion about chain reactions in LENR-type experiments... Not sure if I got the below reference from vortex-l or not, but, in a general sense, it seems that it is saying that under certain conditions, normally incoherent behavior can suddenly become coherent... i.e., the behavior of atoms or subatomic particles, at least locally, changes into something that rarely occurs in the bulk. This just seems to mirror what I perceive as occuring in the Pd lattice; namely, that conditions come about that cause some kind of coherent atomic/QM behavior that results in reactions that will never occur under normal bulk conditions...
-Mark
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AU - Piot, B. A.
TI - Wigner crystallization in a quasi-three-dimensional
electronic system
JA - Nat Phys
PY - 2008/10/05/online
PB - Nature Publishing Group
SN - 1745-2481
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphys1094
Abstract
When a strong magnetic field is applied perpendicularly (along z) to a sheet
confining electrons to
two dimensions (x-y), highly correlated states emerge as a result of the
interplay between
electron-electron interactions, confinement and disorder. These so-called
fractional quantum Hall
liquids (1) form a series of states that ultimately give way to a periodic
electron solid that
crystallizes at high magnetic fields. This quantum phase of electrons has been
identified previously
as a disorder-pinned two-dimensional Wigner crystal with broken translational
symmetry in the x-y
plane (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8). Here, we report our discovery of a new insulating
quantum phase of
electrons when, in addition to a perpendicular field, a very high magnetic
field is applied in a
geometry parallel (y direction) to the two-dimensional electron sheet. Our data
point towards this
new quantum phase being an electron solid in a 'quasi-three-dimensional'
configuration induced by
orbital coupling with the parallel field.
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