Thank you, the scientific story becomes more and more interesting. Peter
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 3:39 AM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > One of the key characteristics of the quantum world is that light and > matter can combine. This quantum electrodynamics (QED) condition is central > the transmission and reflection of light through a solid. > > A photon can be absorbed by an electron and then reemitted. > > The time that it takes for the electron to process a photon is called the > capture time. > > The capture time of the photon is important to the LENR+ reaction because > while the photon and electron are combined, the electron becomes a boson > with spin of 1. > > This enables the electron/photon pair to form a Bose-Einstein condensate > (BEC) because when the pair remains coupled the bosonic nature makes BEC’s > possible. > > When paired, the photon also reduces the weight of the electron. This very > low weight enables BEC formation at very high temperatures. > Both the coupling time and strength can be substantially increased by > engineering optimal nanostructures. > > One attempt at this engineering effort succeeded in increasing the > coupling strength by 16 times over the bulk condition. > > From the referenced paper: > > “Additional surface passivation that preserves the polaritonic nature of > the excitations at small nanowire diameters allows us to push the observed > vacuum Rabi splitting to values of up to 200 meV in comparison to bulk > values of 82 meV. These results provide new avenues to achieve very high > coupling strengths (beyond bulk) potentially enabling application of > exciting phenomena such as Bose-Einstein condensation of polaritons, > efficient light-emitting diodes and lasers,” > > Because one ev is translated to 10,000 K in temperature, this 200 meV > value corresponds to a maximum BEC temperature of 2000K. > > Backup info for tis post can be found at > > phys.org/pdf227265287.pdf > > Lighten up: Polaritons with tunable > photon-exciton coherence > > and > > One-dimensional polaritons with size-tunable and enhanced coupling > strengths in semiconductor nanowires > > www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/05/23/1102212108.full.pdf > > or > > www.pnas.org/content/108/25/10050.full > > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
