http://www.google.com/patents/WO2013076378A2?cl=en
[0033] Regarding the penetration of the Coulomb barrier around the atom nucleus, resonance of a wave function of a particle in a quantum well system has been described by David Bohm, "Quantum theory", Prentice-Hall, New York 1951, which is incorporated herein by reference. Specifically, a wave is reflecting back and forth across the potential in a quantum well, a wave coming in the quantum well from outside enhances the wave inside the quantum well and a strong standing wave is built up inside the quantum well when the system is in resonance. Further, the waveform of a proton tunnels through the Coulomb barrier to the nucleus of an atom with certain probability. Near a resonance the waveform intensity of the proton is considerable in the quantum well and the probability of fusing proton with the nucleus is increased. The metastable state of the fused nucleus may have such a long lifetime in solid state structures that it can decay in other ways than by re-emission of the incident proton or by emission of gamma-ray photons, and energy is released over relatively long time also as lower energy photons (e.g. X-ray photons) or as phonons (lattice vibrations) to the surrounding solid lattice. [0034] When one or more electrons of an atom are excited to high principal quantum number, the excited electron is in the Rydberg state and the atom becomes a Rydberg atom. It is an electrical dipole with a positive core and a negative excited electron orbiting relatively far from the core. As a result, external electric and magnetic fields have a big effect on Rydberg atoms. Rydberg atoms interact with each other because of the electrical dipole properties and are capable of binding together. Rydberg atoms are produced e.g. by electron impact excitation, charge exchange excitation and optical excitation. Excitation energy below the ionization energy produces Rydberg states in atoms. These Rydberg atoms are electrically polarized, which pulls Rydberg atoms together forming clusters of Rydberg atoms. [0035] Until now elements that have been found to possess Rydberg states comprise H, Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, N, Ni, Ag, Cu, Pd, Ti and Y. On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:00 AM, Tim <[email protected]> wrote: > Makes sense, definitely complimentary. For example, The finnish patent > involved increasing tunneling via pyroelectric materials. > > Sent from my iPod > > On Dec 30, 2013, at 21:31, [email protected] wrote: > > > An >
