Let’s go over this Nanoplasmonic process in a little more detail. The formation of the polariton is a multi-part process which involves both phonons and photons as follows:
First, the Exciton is formed as follows: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exciton The electrons on the surface of the metal particles move freely and are driven to vibrate by the phonons of the lattice. These electrons are periodically displaced from the ions of the lattice. This displacement causes electrons and ions to be accumulated on the surfaces at opposite ends of the particles. Because these particles attract each other there is a restoring force. This restoring force results in the formation of an electron oscillator whose quantum is called a surface plasmon and whose frequency is determined by the restoring force. This frequency reflects the effective mass of the electron. The frequency of the surface plasmon not only depends on the metals composition of the particle but also on its size and shape, on the dielectric material that surrounds the particle, and finally on the shape of the particle be it either elongated or spherical because of the varied distance between the two opposite ends. The surface plasmon is a localized oscillation of collective electron densities. The key innovation of the Ni/H reactor is that the reactor produces infrared photons through the actions of field emitters formed on the surface of the nanostructures which cover the surface of the micro-particles or by using photo active chemicals. No laser irradiation is required. This could well be why a chemical based thermal photonic or florescent additive must be added to convert phonons and/or electrons to photons. In this type of reactor, we know that there are lots of infrared photons around because the gamma rays from the LENR nuclear reactions are thermalized into the infrared. In a Ni/H reactor that uses spark discharge, the laser is replaced with a spark. Infrared photons can be produced by converting spark X-ray photons to infrared photons. Finally, the nanoantenna uses Fano resonance to combine the Exciton with the infrared photon to produce a polariton. Cheers: Axil On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 5:16 PM, <mix...@bigpond.com> wrote: > In reply to Axil Axil's message of Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:14:19 -0400: > Hi, > [snip] > >*...if an electron has spin 1/2 and a photon spin 1, then how does the > >combination end up with spin 1? > >* > > > >Because that is what Wikipedia says. > > > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polariton > > > >*“The polariton is a bosonic quasiparticle, and should not be confused > with > >the polaron, a fermionic one, e.g. an electron plus attached phonon > cloud.” > > This is an electron + "phonon"s (not a photon). Perhaps the polariton may > then > later also couple with a photon, though you need to note that there are > things > called "optical phonons", which are phonons at optical frequencies. Optical > phonons may be responsible for some of the "optical" references. In short > you > need to read this stuff very carefully. > > >* > [snip] > >> >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. > >> > >> ...if an electron has spin 1/2 and a photon spin 1, then how does the > >> combination end up with spin 1? > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Robin van Spaandonk > [snip] > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html > >
