At 05:08 PM 6/28/2010, Jed Rothwell wrote:
See:
Lawandy, N.M., Interactions of charged particles on surfaces. Appl.
Phys. Lett., 2009. 95(23).
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http://apl.aip.org/applab/v95/i23/p234101_s1?view=fulltext&bypassSSO=1
I do not know enough about theory to judge how this relates to cold
fusion, but the author informed me it does.
It certainly does. Fusion at much lower temperatures than expected
without the phenomenon described is explicitly mentioned. From the conclusions:
In conclusion, it has been shown that a system of like charges can
bind on the surface of a high dielectric constant interface leading
to new two-dimensional charged species or ions with the possibility
of having bosonic properties in the ground state. In addition, when
the larger ensembles of charges are present, the long-range nature
of the attractive image forces results in compressions of the
interparticle spacing leading to high local surface charge densities
and to separations where light nuclei are expected to exhibit high
fusion rates even in the presence of other neutral species.
From earlier in the paper:
The predicted small separations of the charges when N is large
suggests that this system could lead to enhanced fusion rates when
an ensemble of charged D, T, or D-T mixtures are created on a
surface with a high dielectric constant, even in the presence of
other negatively charged and neutral species.
